Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

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- Nikolay Petrov
The “Donbasisation” of Russia

How Occupation Is Influencing Russia’s Political System

SWP Comment 2025/C 22, 22.05.2025, 7 Pages
doi:10.18449/2025C22
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- Jonas Schneider
- Juliana Süß
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Space?

Potential Destructive Consequences in Space, Escalation on Earth, and Damage to Arms Control

SWP Comment 2025/C 21, 15.05.2025, 8 Pages
doi:10.18449/2025C21
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- Yaşar Aydın
Turkey on the Path to Autocracy

Economic Consequences and Policy Options for the EU and Germany

SWP Comment 2025/C 20, 07.05.2025, 6 Pages
doi:10.18449/2025C20
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- Meike Schulze
The Strategic Raw Material Partnership between the EU and Zambia

Industrial Cooperation Is Key to Value Creation and Long-Term Collaboration

SWP Comment 2025/C 19, 06.05.2025, 8 Pages
doi:10.18449/2025C19
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- Muriel Asseburg
- Peter Lintl
Israel’s Radical Government

Dismantling the Separation of Powers, Takeover of the State Apparatus, and Accelerated Annexation

SWP Comment 2025/C 18, 22.04.2025, 8 Pages
doi:10.18449/2025C18

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- Nikolay Petrov
The second front in Putin’s war: The Russification of Ukraine’s occupied territories

Nearly three years since Putin’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia controls much of eastern and southern Ukraine. Nikolay Petrov explains how and why the Kremlin pushes for the “Russification” of the occupied territories.

SWP Podcast 2024/eP 06, 18.12.2024

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In Focus

War in the Middle East

On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched massive attacks on Israel, resulting in the massacre of over 1,200 civilians. Since then, Israel has been waging a war against Hamas that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused more than 1.7 million internally displaced persons as well as a disastrous humanitarian situation. The conflict has been escalating regionally and internationally, and the consequences are unforeseeable. What are the backgrounds, scenarios and policy options?

Further publications

- Nicolai von Ondarza
No honeymoon for Merz as the new German government already faces domestic constraints

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

in: Chatham House, 16.05.2025
- Bettina Rudloff
- Christine Wieck
- Sarah Iweala
- Achim Spiller
Due diligence in agricultural value chains: sector specific challenges and chances

in: Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains, 12.05.2025

Dossiers

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Climate Policy and Politics

It is considered one of the greatest threats of the 21st century: climate change. How can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions? And how can we deal with the consequences? This dossier provides an overview of the many challenges facing climate policy at European and international level.
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Russia's war against Ukraine and its consequences

Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine - with repercussions on a global scale. A new dossier bundles publications and media contributions on the war and its consequences.
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Sustainability, Climate and Energy

The dossier deals with developments in the field of sustainability, climate and energy. It displays publications and other products by SWP researchers that track international and European policy processes, and discuss recommendations for action.
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Cybersecurity and Digital Policy: The Role of the Digital in International Politics

Digital Foreign Policy, Cyber-Security, International Law & Human Rights, Regional Perspectives. The dossier seeks to offer orientation in this complex field and offers compilations of relevant publications by SWP authors in the respective fields.
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Forced Displacement and Migration

The dossier introduces the topics of International Migration Trends; Forced Displacement, Migration and Development; International Cooperation; European Migration and Refugee Policy; and National Migration and Refugee Policy, and pools publications by SWP authors.
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) advises the German Bundestag and the German government as well as international organisations on questions concerning foreign and security policy.