Max Smeets is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich and Co-Director of Virtual Routes. He is the author of ‘Ransom War: How Cyber Crime became a Threat to National ...

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consulting ...

The Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) analyzes recent events, trends and developments within contemporary Russian politics, economics and business, foreign policy, security and society. Each issue ...

The Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) is a bimonthly internet publication jointly produced by the Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia), the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO) ...

The CSS focuses its activities on this eight core themes.

The Strategic Trends series offers a concise analysis of major developments in world affairs, with a primary focus on international security. The annual volumes provide succinct interpretations of key ...

Since the “Zeitenwende”, the shape of Switzerland’s neutrality has once again become a controversial subject domestically. The Federal Council has so far seen no need to change course, but will have ...

The Center's publications make a significant research contribution in the field of security and strategic studies, while at the same time fostering public debate on Swiss and international security ...

The aim of this book is to review the use of technology in monitoring and verifying ceasefires, drawing on the Ukraine experience between 2014 and 24 February 2022. It explores the question of how ...

The Moldovan Analytical Digest is a quartely internet publication jointly produced by the University of Fribourg/CH, the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, the C ...

In the CSS Annual Report 2023, you can read more about the main focuses and activities of CSS in a year characterized by multiple, overlapping crises with a serious impact on global security.

Eduard Klein () and Heiko Pleines (), both Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. This issue addresses public perceptions of social justice and the role of the state in ...