Publications

This publication reviews the post-caliphate Salafi-jihadi environment, focusing on two issues: the franchising strategy of al-Qaeda and Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the evolving thr...chevron_right

This report analyzes developments in the protection of civilians (PoC) in UN peacekeeping over the last decade. More specifically, it includes four articles on 1) the role of the Security Council in P...chevron_right

The North Korea-United States Hanoi summit in February failed to produce an agreement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Duyeon Kim writes that no deal was better than a bad deal, but the additional failure to establish a next meeting was not encouraging. So what’s the way forward? In this publication, Kim responds by examining potential pathways towards denuclearization and peace on the peninsula, and by outlining how Washington needs to configure the right tradeoffs to move North Korea towards taking denuclearization steps without giving away too much too soon.chevron_right

By the end of 2017, 25 EU Member States had joined the newly established Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO). This co-operation framework aims at deepening technological and institutional interop...chevron_right

In this report, Marco Käser, Linda Maduz, Tim Prior and Florian Roth use survey data to investigate the drivers of information seeking and hazard preparedness behaviour in Switzerland, with a focus placed on public preparedness towards pandemics. Among other findings, the results show that people in Switzerland appear to be seeking more information about risks and demonstrate higher levels of risk perception than before. However, this does not necessarily correlate with an increase in knowledge about potential preparations or actual preparation to address possible hazards.chevron_right

Collaboration between civic society and public administration is key in successful emergency and disaster management. However, new technologies, large-scale disaster events, changes in public engagement and other factors are combining to bring new, spontaneous and emergent forms of volunteerism to official disaster management activities. In this report, Tim Prior and Florian Roth address the challenges and opportunities involved in integrating such volunteers in disaster management and civil protection. Our authors also detail the instruments that are available to improve volunteer involvement.chevron_right

The articles in this CEJISS issue address 1) the benefits of varying the forms of democracy across different levels of government; 2) the outcomes of the implementation of coercive tactics to combat t...chevron_right

This publication examines EU macro-regional strategies (MRS), which are EU initiatives to create multi-country coordination structures in order to strengthen joint collaboration on challenges member s...chevron_right

This publication contends that trade has become a taboo topic in climate negotiations on the implementation of the Paris climate agreement. To avoid a collision between the climate and trade regimes t...chevron_right

This publication contends that the rules-based framework, as instantiated in rules established under the World Trade Organization (WTO), is not equipped to address the issues that are emerging under t...chevron_right

The four articles in this edition of the CTC Sentinel examine 1) the evolution of the jihadi terrorist threat in East Africa over the last three decades; 2) the March 2019 terror attack in Christchurc...chevron_right

This YES edition provides an overview of events in 2018 that were significant for European security and charts major developments in the EU’s external action and security and defense policy. The book ...chevron_right

This publication analyzes Russian political and economic operations in the Western Balkans and outlines two key findings. First, Russia’s policy in the region is executed by a network of Russian state...chevron_right

This paper looks at the evolution of the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP), unveils shifting attitudes towards the EaP program and provides analyses of both its successes and failures in the six partner ...chevron_right

This publication analyzes Turkmenistan and what it contends is its ‘Potemkin economy’, consisting of respectable official GDP figures and a tightly regulated state shops which mask huge structural cha...chevron_right