Journal: CSS Policy Perspectives

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Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich

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2296-6471

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  • Europe’s Fiery Future: Rethinking Wildfire Policy
    Item type: Other Publication
    Eriksen, Christine (2020)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    Climate change plays a crucial role in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires. While the US and Australia have been particularly affected this year, Europe will increasingly face similar challenges, argues Christine Eriksen in this CSS Policy Perspective. Exacerbated by problematic land management policies, wildfires are forcing emergency services, land managers and policymakers to adapt to a fiery future. How we manage the land and where we live matter. Local and indigenous environmental knowledge that understands the diverse, interconnecting aspects of a landscape are crucial to sustainable land stewardship. Knowing the difference between good and bad fire regimes is equally important.
  • Unequal Access to UN Human Rights Bodies
    Item type: Other Publication
    Steinert, Christoph Valentin (2023)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    The United Nations Special Procedures operate a human rights complaint mechanism for individuals. Despite being open for all individuals in principle, complaints are frequently filed by socioeconomic elites from high-income countries.
  • Predictive Policing: Proceed, but with Care
    Item type: Other Publication
    Leese, Matthias (2020)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    Data-driven analytics can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of police work and crime prevention. Police departments should however proceed with care, as tools such as predictive policing raise a number of concerns regarding human rights and civil liberties, argues Matthias Leese in this CSS Policy Perspective. More specifically, tools such as predictive policing can potentially undermine civil liberties and impair the relationship between the police and the population. In order to ensure responsible use, policy-makers and police chiefs should critically reflect questions of data, automation, decision-making, communication, and operative measures in algorithmically supported police work.
  • The War against Ukraine Shapes NATO’s Future
    Item type: Other Publication
    Kunertova, Dominika; Masuhr, Niklas (2022)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    The Russian invasion of Ukraine revitalized NATO and marked the return of US leadership in the alliance. However, the coming months may prove more difficult for NATO to navigate due to a series of dilemmas that could endanger its cohesion.
  • Neo-Containment: a Strategy toward Russia
    Item type: Other Publication
    Larsen, Henrik Boesen Lindbo (2020)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    In this CSS Policy Perspective, Neo-Containment: a Strategy toward Russia, Henrik Larsen argues that the West should draw inspiration from containment’s intellectual origins and primarily approach Russia as a political-psychological threat. According to the author, neo-containment should target Moscow’s capacity to undermine public confidence and limit its space for political influence, which are bigger threats to Western cohesion than during the Cold War. NATO and the EU’s public diplomacy and counter-subversion initiatives should play a key role in this respect.
  • Belarus in Upheaval: Three Scenarios
    Item type: Other Publication
    Zogg, Benno (2021)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    As Alexander Lukashenko has become a toxic figure at home and abroad, three scenarios for the regime’s future are perceptible. Each has important foreign policy implications, and Russia is key in all of them, argues Benno Zogg in this CSS Policy Perspective. Three scenarios are foreseeable: a managed revolution removing Lukashenko, a dictatorship following the current trajectory, and a managed transition as a most likely long-term scenario. In the long run, the West may come to terms with a new Belarusian government. But this will mean finding a delicate balance between targeted sanctions and support for civil society, while avoiding East-West polarization.
  • #NigeriaOnTheEdge
    Item type: Other Publication
    Giroux, Jennifer; Gilpin, Raymond (2014)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
  • The Use of Smart Pressure to Resolve Civil Wars
    Item type: Other Publication
    Duursma, Allard (2018)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
  • NATO’s Strategic Concept: Three Do’s and Don'ts
    Item type: Other Publication
    Larsen, Henrik Boesen Lindbo (2021)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    The new Strategic Concept must clarify the tasks that NATO should undertake in the great-power competition with, and defense of common values against, Russia and China, argues Henrik Larsen in this CSS Policy Perspective. It should concentrate on military burden sharing to improve alliance cohesion rather than on the condemnation of allies’ democratic shortcomings, tie resilience to collective defense and national security but not extend into an area like ordinary law enforcement, and state NATO’s ambition to define gold standards for new technology but refrain from “going global”.
  • US-China “Tech Decoupling”: A Swiss Perspective
    Item type: Other Publication
    Fischer, Sophie-Charlotte (2022)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    A partial technological decoupling of the United States and China is already under way. Switzerland will also feel the ripple effects.
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