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The New START arms control treaty is ending. Is a new nuclear arms race about to begin?

Interviews and other articles from our IFSH researchers about this topic

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.

Venezuela and the Folly of the US War on Drugs

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

The IFSH embarks on a phase of strategic growth

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Hamburg Literature Award for IFSH’s everyday research partners

Book Presentation: Scientific Expertise and Political Power in Chinese Foreign Policy

Future Lab ‘The world I want to live in’

Understanding and Countering Hybrid Attacks: Thilo Geiger in Conversation with Guests at the HADLEY'S Evening Salon

Start of the Academic Year 2025/26: New Cohort Begins Peace and Security Studies

IFSH Director Prof. Dr Ursula Schröder Becomes Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities

International Scientific Cooperation in Disruptive Times: IFSH Director Speaks at Bucerius Law School Event

Funding for New Research Group: Security in Times of Crisis

Closer Cooperation with Harvard University

Pan-European Conference on International Relations 2025 in Bologna

Significant programme development by the IFSH

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50 Years of the Helsinki Final Act - Panel Discussion in Hamburg

"Co-Laborating for Change?": International Workshop on Participatory Peace Research in Hamburg

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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Lessons for European Security

Germany‘s leading peace research institutes present their 2025 Peace Report

Kick-off event in Brussels for the European science network ‘PEACE Action’

China's military and nuclear armament: IFSH workshop at the Federal Academy for Security Policy

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Research and Transfer Project “Impact Hub” Explores Untapped Potential in Germany’s Integrated Peace Engagement

How Germany deals with Islamism - closing event of the KURI project in Berlin

Excluded from the Table? US-Russia Talks and the Future of Ukraine

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A New Home for ZeFKo

New Research Project on: Making Integrated Action for Peace More Successful

After the “eXit”: New Social Media Set-Up at IFSH

Hallucinations of AI, AI Ethics, Singularity, General-Purpose AI Model

Dr Mateusz Łabuz. In: Encyklopedia Bezpieczeństwa, Vol. 8, edited by O. Wasiuta, S. Wasiuta. Kraków: Libron. Published 2025.

IFSH Researchers Discuss Types of Victories

IFSH Researcher Speaks at Moldova Security Forum

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Jessica Noll and Philipp Neubauer from the SSR Hub project organised a round table in Berlin together with the Federal Foreign Office. The central topic was feminist foreign policy in the area of security sector reform. (c) private

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Several tens of thousands of people protested against right-wing extremism in Hamburg city centre on 19 January 2024. Due to the unexpectedly large crowds, the police had to call off the demonstration for security reasons. (c) dpa Picture Alliance | Jonas Walzberg

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Tour of the tunnelling work at a US nuclear weapons research facility for the new ZEUS and SCORPION experiments, which cost two and a half billion dollars and are used to research plutonium under shock compression.

IFSH researcher Dr Moritz Kütt is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and reported on the current state of research in New York.

Dr habil Cornelius Friesendorf gives insights into the work of the OSCE in the Evening Salon.

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Together with many participants, the project partners celebrated the successful conclusion of the participatory research project MUVE at the central library in Hamburg.

An international expert group gathered in Hamburg and exchanged knowledge about arms control and emerging technologies.

Refugees support the work of the IFSH researchers with their personal experiences.

Participants of the third training session on security sector reform.

PD Dr. Martin Kahl is Deputy Director at the IFSH and Head of the Research Area Societal Peace and Internal Security.

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Hamburg State Councillor Dr. Eva Gümbel (3rd from left) visits the "Peace Jam" Games Kiosk on the opening day of the Millerntor Gallery.

The scientists and partners involved in the joint project "NEOVEX" met in June for a "mid-term review" of the project at IFSH in Hamburg.

IFSH Director Ursula Schröder gives her expert assessment on the National Security Strategy.

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