Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich (@css.ethz.ch)

@css.ethz.ch Oct 15, 2026, 2:36 PM

📢 New Policy Brief No. 13: Unpacking European Digital Sovereignty

In this Policy Brief, Pablo Wey and Arthur Laudrainpropose an analytical framework that distinguishes three dimensions of digital sovereignty.

📖 Read the full Policy Brief in English, German and French: css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...

@laenderanalysen.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 9:23 AMReposted by @css.ethz.ch

Die neuen Russland-Analysen sind online. Themen sind Russlandbilder & Drohnenabwehr. Mit Analysen von @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social, Franziska Mödl und Ivo Capaul (@css.ethz.ch).
Dazu Dokumentationen zu Kriegsverbrechen und Politkowskaja von @hadjalahbib.bsky.social und @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de 👇

@css.ethz.ch Oct 15, 2026, 9:41 AM

🚁 Drohnen über kritischer Infrastruktur: Wie gut ist die Schweiz vorbereitet?

Im SRF Tagesgespräch ordnet Ivo Capaul, Researcher am CSS, die sicherheitspolitischen Herausforderungen ein.

🎙️ Das ganze SRF Tagesgespräch mit Ivo Capaul: www.srf.ch/play/tv/tage...

@css.ethz.ch Oct 14, 2026, 2:23 PM

Yemen: When Talks Stall, Local Actors Help Sustain Ceasefires, but Not Indefinitely

Drawing on interviews conducted in Yemen as part of a CSS research project, Sydney Anna Möckli explores why lasting peace ultimately requires a political settlement.

🖇️Read the full blog: css.ethz.ch/en/center/CS...

@css.ethz.ch Oct 7, 2026, 8:06 AM

⛑️Yesterday marked the start of EU MODEX Switzerland, the country's first exercise under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM).

In a new CSS Policy Brief, Jurgena Kamberaj examines how the exercise can strengthen Swiss civil protection.

Read the full Policy Brief:👉 css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...

@css.ethz.ch Oct 5, 2026, 12:43 PM

How can defence institutions adapt at the speed of AI-driven warfare?

Our latest CSS Web Talk brought together Sean McFate, Kyung-joo Jeon, Don Brown, and Chung Min Lee, moderated by Michael Raska.

Watch the recording of the Web Talk:
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mfc...

@drceriksen.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:41 AMReposted by @css.ethz.ch

Fired up! 🔥🎥 Tom Lowe and I have been awarded an Agora grant by @snsf.ch to turn insights from the FiRESproject.com into short documentaries and a moving image installation that will be exhibited at @focusterra.bsky.social next year. To whet your appetite ➡️ css.ethz.ch/en/center/CS... @css.ethz.ch

@css.ethz.ch Sep 30, 2026, 8:11 AM

Space Cyber Threat Intelligence: Threat Landscape Report 2025 🛰️

In this CSS Study Clémence Poirier identifies 407 cyber operations against the space sector in 2025 and investigates the reasons behind the limited availability of cyber threat intelligence on satellites.

👉 css.ethz.ch/content/dam/...

@corinnebara.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 2:17 PMReposted by @css.ethz.ch

New publication in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social with @realmps.bsky.social.

Do ceasefires live up to the hopes placed in them to stop civilian suffering? We find they can reduce civilian targeting. This, however, mostly happens when at least one side gets military support...
doi.org/10.1093/jopr...