The Center for Security Studies heads into the Fall Semester 2025. Here you can find an overview of courses in various programs that are taught by CSS employees.

Lea esta página en español aquí. The Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset is the first cross-national lynching event dataset. The LYLA data captures 2818 reported lynching events across 18 Latin ...

The CSS education courses are a central part of the study programs of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) of ETH Zurich and the Center for Comparative and ...

No. 313: Russian Foreign Propaganda in Occupied Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus (2024) Russian Analytical Digest (RAD) Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European ...

The growing complexity of border-transcending security issues confronts the international community with a plethora of challenges. Within the topic of “Global Security”, we examine how geopolitical ...

Author(s): Farzaneh Badiei, Marie Baezner, Matteo E. Bonfanti, Aaron F. Brantly, Sean Cordey, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jacqueline Eggenschwiler, Johan Eriksson, Giampiero ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, the Federal Council took a clear stance in late February 2022, condemning the breach of international law “in the strongest possible terms” ...

At the NATO Summit in Wales nearly a decade ago, NATO recognized that cyber defense is an inseparable part of collective defense. Therefore, a cyberattack against one or more member states can trigger ...