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The world has descended into a state of acute polarization and great power contestation. The war on Ukraine has had a profound impact on world affairs with a sharp rise in food and energy insecurity, spiking inflation rates and struggling economies.
Last Friday, the GCSP, in association with the Swiss Embassy to the United States, convened an insightful roundtable on the global implications of the war in Ukraine for US Think Tankers.
Agathe Demarais's Backfire critically examines the effectiveness and the long-term viability of sanctions as a policy tool for coercion. The book puts forward two arguments.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute together with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to UNOG
Supported by the Université de Genève and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Today, young people across Europe are facing diverse challenges, Leadership education in all its forms can serve as a catalyst for empowerment and change.
Madame la Présidente, très chère Hélène, Mes chères Consœurs, mes chers Confrères, Mesdames et Messieurs,
What were the underlying and immediate causes of the October 1962 crisis? What factors made it possible to avert nuclear war? What are the similarities and differences between the crisis in 1962 and today?
The war between Russia and Ukraine as well as other ongoing conflicts from the Lake Chad Basin to Yemen are causing massive suffering by civilians. Civilians are caught up in fighting, deliberately targeted, denied access to basic needs, and forced to flee.
Technological innovations have always shaped conflict and war. In the 20th century, technological developments in the military realm mainly concerned conventional weapons, such as fighter jets, missiles, and tanks, as well as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.