Resilience is becoming a central term in debates on preparedness, security, and governance. It appears in discussions on critical infrastructure, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, digital ...

Recent revelations of Chinese government-backed hacking show a recurring pattern: prominent hackers behind groups such as APT17, APT27, APT41, Flax Typhoon, and Red Hotel—monikers given by ...

Reports and information disclosures by threat intelligence providers, government agencies, think tanks, and online hacktivists have exposed China’s elaborate multifaceted “hack-for-hire” ecosystem ...

Space systems are an integral part of modern war fighting. Militaries use them to conduct everything from reconnaissance to communications and data transfers, mission planning, and maintain ...

Gorana Grgić and Daniel Möckli place this year’s edition of Strategic Trends in the context of profound changes in the international order, characterized by shifting power balances, increasing rivalry ...

In her new CSS Analysis, Gesine Weber examines how the EU has fundamentally revised its approach as a security actor by strengthening cooperation with external partners. The new Security and Defense ...

The establishment of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) was a long-standing Soviet idea that gained traction in the 1970s. From 1973 to 1975, East and West engaged in a ...

The IT Army of Ukraine was stood up in an ad-hoc manner without a clearly structured and proven plan. Born out of necessity, the IT Army subsequently evolved into a hybrid construct that is neither ...

Islamist armed actors frame their struggle in terms derived from the Qur’an and the Prophetic traditions. In recent years, such groups have expanded and consolidated power in different intrastate ...

This book tries to answer the following seven questions: ...

This chapter addresses the types of cyber operations that were conducted against the space sector as well as the types of space entities that have been targeted by threat actors in the context of the ...

The EU – and Europe as a whole – is at a historical inflection point. Russia’s war against Ukraine, China’s persistent rise, and the return of an America First president pose severe challenges to its ...