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Contemporary Security Policy

At the nexus of proof and policy, we have published research on armed violence, intervention, and conflict resolution since 1980. Impact factor: 5.719 (rank #4/96 International Relations)

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  • What drives states to join universal WMD treaties

    Our understanding of WMD treaties is largely based on what we know about the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Jan Karlas studies instead state participation in all 10 universal treaties. He finds that states ratify those treaties for a variety of reasons. Read more →

  • Promoting the “Rules-Based Order” through strategic narratives

    Rebecca Strating studies strategic narratives around the "Rules-Based Order" (RBO) in Asia-Specific. She studies three asymmetrical bilateral maritime disputes that involve the UK, India and Australia, and finds that RBO narratives constrained the behaviours of the states that adopt the term. Read more →

  • The EU’s PESCO initiative and differentiated cooperation in security and defence

    Benjamin Martill and Carmen Gebhard seek to clarify the EU's Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) initiative in security and defence. They show that PESCO has been designed, through flexible forms of differentiated cooperation, to work around some of the perennial challenges of European defence.  Read more →

  • Ukraine forum: call for abstracts

    CSP will publish a second forum about the war in Ukraine and what we got wrong as a discipline. Please reach out to us with paper ideas and abstracts. Read more →

  • Informal Groupings in EU Approach to Conflicts and Crises

    EU foreign and security policy is often made by informal groups of member states rather than the EU institutions. Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré studies these informal groups with respect to the cases of Kosovo, Libya, and Syria. Read more →

Recent Posts

  • What drives states to join universal WMD treaties
  • Promoting the “Rules-Based Order” through strategic narratives
  • The EU’s PESCO initiative and differentiated cooperation in security and defence
  • Ukraine forum: call for abstracts
  • Informal Groupings in EU Approach to Conflicts and Crises

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