Research Projects

Currently, the research activities of the CSS are organized in 47 research projects. Additional information about the projects will be provided later on.

• A Comparative Outlook on the Oil Producing Sector in Middle Eastern Countries; Bianca Sarbu
• A Negotiation Perspective on the Use of Threats and Promises in International Economic Policy Disputes; Marco Martini
• Assessing the Health of the Nuclear Regime; Liviu Horovitz
• Bulletin on Swiss Security Policy (Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik); Andreas Wenger; Daniel Trachsler
• Bundesrat Max Petitpierre: Schweizerische Aussenpolitik im Kalten Krieg, 1945–1961; Daniel Trachsler
• Colonizing Cyberspace: The Politics of the "Digital Frontier"; Gabriel Brönnimann
• Combined Sanctions Strategies; Mark Daniel Jaeger
• Culture and Religion in Mediation (CARIM); Simon Mason
• Deterring Terrorism: Theory and Practice; Andreas Wenger; Alexandre Wilner
• Deterring the Undeterrable; Alex Wilner
• Emerging Market Oil and Gas Multinationals: Effects on World Markets and Geopolitics; Jonas Grätz
• Energy and the Transformation of International Relations: Global Perspectives and the Role of Russia; Andreas Wenger; Robert Orttung; Jeronim Perovic
• Energy Infrastructure as a Target; Jennifer Giroux
• Eurasian Regionalism: Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Stephen Aris
• Europe, the US, and the Middle East Conflict; Daniel Möckli
• Evolution Russian Security; Aglaya Snetkov
• How Inequalities Matter: A Complexity-Oriented Approach to the Study of Intra-State Conflict; Corinne Bara
• Learning to Be Mighty: Private Security Contractors and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq; Ulrich Petersohn
• Markets for Force; Ulrich Petersohn
• Mediation Support Project (MSP); Simon Mason
• Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP); Andreas Wenger; Roland Popp
• Origins of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; Andreas Wenger; Roland Popp
• Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP); Andreas Wenger; Roland Popp
• Perception Management in the «Information Age» – A Gender Lens Discourse Analysis of US Doctrine and Products; Elgin Brunner
• Private Security Contractors and the Legitimate Use of Force; Ulrich Petersohn
• Regional Aspects of Afghanistan; Aglaya Snetkov
• Regional Organizations and Security: Conceptions and Practices; Stephen Aris
• Risk & Resilience; Myriam Dunn Cavelty
• Security in the Information Age; Myriam Dunn Cavelty
• Security: The Trend of Opinions on Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy (Sicherheit: Aussen-, sicherheits- und verteidigungspolitische Meinungsbildung im Trend); Andreas Wenger; Tibor Szvircsev Tresch
• Sociology of Swiss Risk Politics; Jonas Hagmann
• Strategic Culture, Securitization and Security Policy in Liberal Democracies since the End of the Cold War; Wilhelm Mirow
• Strategic Foresight; Myriam Dunn Cavelty
• Strategic Trends; Daniel Möckli
• Strategy – Analytical Concepts and Practice in the Context of Security and Defence; Marco Wyss
• Strengthening Resilience Through Risk Communication; Florian Roth
• Swiss Efforts in the Field of Peacebuilding; Daniel Trachsler
• Swiss Foreign Policy: The Power of Identity; Daniel Möckli
• The Crime-Conflict Continuum; Prem Mahadevan
• The Degree of Trust Among EU Governments: A Comparative Case Study; Christoph Elhardt
• The Governance of Security Cooperatives; Manuel Suter
• The Pitfalls of Predicting Proliferation: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in IR and Security Studies; Ursula Jasper
• The Sources of Nuclear Behavior; Roland Popp; Andreas Wenger
• Threats, Risks, and International Order; Jonas Hagmann
• Transformation of Armed Forces in Neutral and Non-Aligned States; Christoph Kaufmann
• Transformative Radicalization; Alex Wilner
• United in Coopetition – Success and Failure of European Armaments Collaboration, 1960–2005; Alrik Thiem

Concluded research projects