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Die Publikationsreihe «Strategic Trends» bietet eine jährliche Analyse wichtiger weltpolitischer Entwicklungen, wobei Fragen der internationalen Sicherheit im Zentrum stehen. Die Bände enthalten vertiefte Untersuchungen zu ausgewählten Schlüsseltrends und sind mit zahlreichen Grafiken angereichert. In Ergänzung zur Publikation führt das CSS jährlich die Tagung «Weltpolitische Lage: Herausforderungen für die Schweiz» durch. «Strategic Trends» erscheint in englischer Sprache.

Strategic Trends 2025
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli, Jeronim Perović, Névine Schepers, Michael Singh
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Advanced Technologies: Control and Cooperation amid Great Power Competition
Author(s): Névine Schepers
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Wither or Further: The Future of Euro-Atlantic – Indo-Pacific Cooperation
Author(s): Gorana Grgić
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Digital Capabilities as a Strategic Resource
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Domestic Fallout and Eurasian Geopolitical Shifts
Author(s): Jeronim Perović
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Rudderless World: American Neo-revisionism and the Demise of Global Order
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Lessons from the Middle East’s Unfinished War
Author(s): Michael Singh
Editor(s): Gorana Grgić, Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2025

Strategic Trends 2023
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Névine Schepers, Boas Lieberherr
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

Silicon Curtain: America’s Quest for Allied Export Controls against China
Author(s): Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

Alliances and Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Europe and Asia
Author(s): Névine Schepers
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

How India Navigates a World in Transition
Author(s): Boas Lieberherr
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

China, Russia, and the Future of World Order
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

Strategic Trends 2022
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson, Dominika Kunertova, Boas Lieberherr, Linda Maduz, Névine Schepers
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

Transatlantic Security and the Future of Nuclear Arms Control
Author(s): Névine Schepers
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

Hypersonic Weapons: Emerging, Disruptive, Political
Author(s): Dominika Kunertova
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

China-Russia Relations and Asian Security
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

Indo-Pacific: The Reconstruction of a Region
Author(s): Boas Lieberherr, Linda Maduz
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

Strategic Trends 2021
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson, Julian Kamasa, Linda Maduz, Niklas Masuhr, Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

China-Russia Relations and Transatlantic Security
Author(s): Brian G. Carlson
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Japan and South Korea: Adapting to Asia’s Changing Regional Order
Author(s): Linda Maduz
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Europe and Major-Power Shifts in the Middle East
Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Turkey’s New Outlook: Power Projection in the Middle East and Beyond
Author(s): Niklas Masuhr
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Franco-German-British Security Cooperation After Brexit
Author(s): Julian Kamasa
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Strategic Trends 2020: Wie wahrscheinlich ist ein Krieg zwischen den USA und China?
Author(s): Oliver Thränert, Michael Haas, Niklas Masuhr
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

Strategic Trends 2020
Author(s): Michael Haas, Henrik Larsen, Linda Maduz, Niklas Masuhr, Jack Thompson, Benno Zogg
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

China, the US, and World Order
Author(s): Jack Thompson
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

US-China Relations and the Specter of Great Power War
Author(s): Michael Haas, Niklas Masuhr
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

China as a Stress Test for Europe’s Coherence
Author(s): Henrik Larsen, Linda Maduz
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

On the Belt, on the Road: China’s Pivot to Eurasia
Author(s): Benno Zogg
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2020

Strategic Trends 2019
Author(s): Michael Haas, Jeronim Perović, Jack Thompson, Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Jack Thompson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2019

Präsident Trumps Handelspolitik
Author(s): Jack Thompson
Editor(s): Jack Thompson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2019

Das Ende westlicher militärtechnologischer Überlegenheit
Author(s): Michael Haas
Editor(s): Jack Thompson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2019

Russlands Eurasien Strategie
Author(s): Jeronim Perović
Editor(s): Jack Thompson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2019

Russlands Renaissance in der arabischen Welt
Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Jack Thompson, Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2019

Strategic Trends 2018
Author(s): John Thompson, Brian Carlson, Severin Fischer, Tim Prior
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2018

Superpower Constrained
Author(s): John Thompson
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2018

Room for Maneuver: China and Russia Strengthen Their Relations
Author(s): Brian Carlson
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2018

Technological Innovation and the Geopolitics of Energy
Author(s): Severin Fischer
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2018

Resilience: The ‘Fifth Wave’ in the Evolution of Deterrence
Author(s): Tim Prior
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2018

Strategic Trends 2017
Author(s): Christian Nünlist, John Thompson, Daniel Keohane, Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2017

Contested History: Rebuilding Trust in European Security
Author(s): Christian Nünlist
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2017

Looking Beyond Trump
Author(s): John Thompson
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2017

Brexit and European Insecurity
Author(s): Daniel Keohane
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2017

Threatened from Within? NATO, Trump and Institutional Adaptation
Author(s): Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2017

Strategic Trends 2016
Author(s): Daniel Keohane, Lisa Watanabe, Prem Mahadevan, Oliver Thränert, Severin Fischer
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

The Renationalization of European Defense Cooperation
Author(s): Daniel Keohane
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

Borderline Practices – Irregular Migration and EU External Relations
Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

Power Politics in (Eur)Asia
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

A Nuclear World Out of (Arms) Control
Author(s): Oliver Thränert
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

An Energy World Order in Flux
Author(s): Severin Fischer
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2016

Strategic Trends 2015
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jonas Grätz, Michael Haas, Prem Mahadevan, Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

The Middle East's Thirty Years' War?
Author(s): Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

Putin's Russia: exploiting the weaknesses of liberal Europe
Author(s): Jonas Grätz
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

Resurgent radicalism
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

Vulnerable frontier: militarized competition in outer space
Author(s): Michael Haas
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

The normalization of cyber-international relations
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2015

Strategic Trends 2014
Author(s): Michael Haas, Jonas Grätz, Prem Mahadevan, Lisa Watanabe, Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

Russia as a Challenger of the West
Author(s): Jonas Grätz
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

Sinking in Shifting Sands: The EU in North Africa
Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

The Talibanization of Insurgency
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2014

Mounting Challenges to Geostrategic Access
Author(s): Michael Haas
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

People Decide, Parameters Shape: US Foreign Policy Under Barack Obama
Author(s): Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Martin Zapfe
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2014

Strategic Trends 2013
Author(s): Andrea Baumann, Jonas Grätz, Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

Strategic Trends 2013: Redefining Leadership
Author(s): Oliver Thränert
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

The De-Westernisation of Globalisation
Author(s): Jonas Grätz
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

Maritime Insecurity in East Asia
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Strategic Trends
Publication Year: 2013

Shifting Parameters of Military Crisis Management
Author(s): Andrea Baumann
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

The Glocalisation of Al Qaedaism
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

Strategic Trends 2012
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jonas Grätz, An Jacobs, Prem Mahadevan, Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

Strategic Trends 2012: From a Multipolar to a Polycentric World
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

China's Uncertain Peaceful Rise
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

The Strategic Weakening of Debt-Ridden Europe
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

Africa's Sore Spot: Regional Conflicts Across the Middle and the Horn
Author(s): An Jacobs
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

Unconventional Resources: The Shifting Geographies and Geopolitics of Energy
Author(s): Jonas Grätz
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

The Militarization of Cyber Security as a Source of Global Tension
Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

Strategic Trends 2011
Author(s): Matthew Hulbert, Roland Popp, Daniel Möckli, Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Power Shifts
Author(s): Matthew Hulbert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Narcotics as a Growing Security Concern
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Strategic Trends 2011: Overview
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

9/11 Ten Years On
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Regional Dynamics in the New Middle East
Author(s): Roland Popp
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Strategic Trends 2010
Author(s): Daniel Möckli, Matthew Hulbert, Prem Mahadevan, Aleksandra Dier
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Energy Security
Author(s): Matthew Hulbert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Financial Crisis
Author(s): Matthew Hulbert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Global Overview 2010
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Non-Proliferation
Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

The Crisis of Crisis Management
Author(s): Aleksandra Dier
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

US Foreign Policy
Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: Strategic Trends
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010