Latest Publications

New START, old risks

Philipp Fischer and Tim Thies, in: IPG-Journal, 27.1.2026

Societal peacemaking in customary contexts in Central Eurasia

Anna Kreikemeyer, Mariam Darchiashvili, Arzuu Sheranova, in: Peacebuilding, 19.01.2026.
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance tour the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

From Venezuela to Greenland: The Consequences of US Hemispheric Policy

IFSH Brief Analysis by Tobias Fella, published 9 January 2026.

The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations

Sassan Gholiagha (ed.) et al., 11.12.2025.

Venezuela and the Folly of the US War on Drugs

IFSH Brief Analysis by Cornelius Friesendorf, published Januar 5, 2026.

A Three Body Problem: NATO, Russia and the Politics of Air Incursions

Alexander Graef, Olga Oliker, in: Deep Cuts Commission Issue Brief 20. December 2025.

Future Formats of Nuclear Arms Control

Tobias Fella, Noah Mayhew, Daria Selezneva, in: Deep Cuts Commission Issue Brief 19. December 2025.

The PRC’s Expanding Arms Control Agenda

Sabine Mokry, in: Arms-Control White Paper in Jamestown Foundation's China Brief. 11.12.2025.

Do China’s Foreign Policy Experts Matter? How?

Sabine Mokry, in: War on the Rocks. 10.12.2025.

Is there a right to statehood for Palestine?

Argyro Kartsonaki, Stefan Wolff, in: Podcast Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 1. 27.11.2025.

Thirty years after the Balkans peace deal, a different US leadership is fumbling the war in Ukraine

Argyro Kartsonaki et al, in: The Conversation. 2.12.2025

Strategic Boundaries and Limitations of Iran-Russia Partnership

Valeriia Gergiieva et al., in: IAI Papers. 3.12.2025

Choosing U.S. Nuclear Protection: The Growing Costs of German Status Quo Policies

Ulrich Kühn et al., in: Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail, 2025.

How China Now Talks About NATO and Why It Matters for the Asia-Pacific

Sabine Mokry, in: The Diplomat. 3.12.2025

Visualizing climate imaginaries

David Shim & Delf Rothe, in: Visual Studies, 40(4), 708–709. 11.11.2025

Using emerging technology for escalation management

Jamie Withorne, in: The Loop. ECPR's Political Science Blog. November 2025

Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%

Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki et al., in: The Conversation. Published 3 November 2025

From Nuclear Deterrence to Democratic Resilience: Towards a 21st Century Security Paradigm

Ulrich Kühn, Lukas Mengelkamp, Franziska Stärk et al. Policy Paper. London: LSE IDEAS. 24.10.2025

False Twins: Intergenerational Injustice in Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Inaction

Franziska Stärk, in: Global Policy, published: 25 September 2025

Deep fakes as a tool of political advertising. Can regulatory framework benefit from the “Ship of Theseus” paradox?

Dr. Mateusz Labuz et al., in: Technology in Society, Volume 84. Published 2025.

After the New START Treaty

Deep Cuts Fact Sheet, published: 15. September 2025

The Strategic Void in Germany’s Defense Debate

Tobias Fella, Lukas Mengelkamp, in: The National Interest, published: 9 September 2025

A Robust Peacekeeping Force in Ukraine? A High Stakes Gamble!

Cornelius Friesendorf and Thilo Geiger, IFSH Brief Analysis, published: September 2025

Assessing Missile Defense Technology and Policy Half a Century After the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Meeting Report.

Timur Kadyshev et al., in: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, published: 3 September 2025

Chinese Scholars and Think Tanks' Constructions of China's National Interest

Sabine Mokry, published: 14 July 2025

Alexander Kelle et al: Countering the Continuing Danger from Toxin Weapons

Alexander Kelle: Non-State Actors and Chemical Terrorism

Alexander Kelle et al: Behavioral Arms Control in the Century of Biology

IFSH Brief Analysis: Legal Aspects of Attacks on Iranian Nuclear Facilities

International Bureaucracies as Constrained Entrepreneurs: The Budget Crisis of the OSCE