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MOISL-students participating in WorldMUN

For the very first time, students from our Master鈥檚 in International Law and Security have participated in World Model United Nations 鈥� an educational simulation where students must solve international problems with other delegates from around the world! Picture taken by Victor Risom.

Associate Professor Louise Moe receives funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for a major research and capacity-building programme on climate change resilience.

Funded with DKK 11,770,885 from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the research programme "Pastoralist Climate Change Resilience in Somaliland (PACCS)" will generate cutting-edge theoretical and policy knowledge on local climate change resilience in Somaliland, focusing on the critical but overlooked livelihood system of pastoralism. Picture by Charles Fred (GNU Free Documentation License).

Anne Ingemann Johansen in P1 Orientering, DR Nyheder and P1 Morgen: Is the EU prepared for a new refugee crisis?

European Heads of State are turning their attention to one of the likely consequences of the Afghanistan鈥檚 collapse: another large refugee stream heading towards Europe. To which extent is the EU prepared for a new refugee crisis? Hear/read CWS鈥檚 Anne Ingemann Johansen鈥檚 take on this in P1 Orientering, DR Nyheder and P1 Morgen. Picture licensed under Creative Commons License 2.0 Generic.

MICS mentioned in the Danish Government's proposal on cyber security

Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen presented a new proposal on cyber security, which will strengthen Denmark's ability to withstand threats in the cyber domain. The proposal contains new and improved tools to increase cyber security, referring among other to our new professional Master degree in Intelligence and Cyber Studies (MICS).

Trine Flockhart i RÆSON SØNDAG: Boris Johnsons 鈥滸lobal Britain鈥� er ikke den stormagtsplan, den påstår at være

CWS Co-Director and Professor Trine Flockhart wrote an article about Global Britain in Ræson 2/5-2021. (Picture licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0)

Television talkshow about industrial espionage against Danish companies

Postdoc André Ken Jakobsson participated in TV2 Nord's talkshow Fokus together with the Venstre's chairman of the Committee on the Intelligence Services, Preben Bang Henriksen, to discuss the challenges of industrial espionage in Denmark (in Danish).

Television documentary on Russian espionage against Danish advanced technology

Postdoc André Ken Jakobsson contributed to the TV2 Nord television documentary "The Russian spy in Aalborg" on Russian espionage against Danish advanced technology, in which the company SerEnergy and former head of PET, Frank Jensen, also participate (in Danish).

New member to our team

We are very pleased to announce that Claire Yorke has been awarded a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, and will be joining our team to develop her project Empathy and International Security (EIS). What is her background and what is the project all about? Find out here.

The significance of AI-driven weapons systems in the context of remote warfare

Debate about AI-driven weapon systems is new, but how practices of warfare compromise human control is not argue CWS鈥� Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss鈥檚 in introductory volume on remote warfare.

Talent Track - Meet Kerstin Bree Carlson

How do we ensure that an - often implicit - bias does not affect law and legal justice? Kerstin Bree Carlson, an Associate Professor at the Department of Law and one of the emerging career scholars in the SAMF Talent Track, suggests that countries that apply transitional justice methods will have less biased court processes. To test this hypothesis, she will compare terror trials from Colombia, Ireland, France, and Denmark. SAMF Talent Track is a new initiative to support young ambitious researchers who have the potential to make significant contributions to their field of research. Read a Q&A with Kerstin Bree Carlson.

The Liberal International Order and Peaceful Change 鈥� Values, Visions, and Passions

Ernst Haas was ahead of his time when he focused on emotions to explain peaceful change, but he was wrong about which emotions matter. What matters for achieving peaceful change is pride and enthusiasm rather than frustration and disappointment. The essay is written by professor Trine Flockhart and is part of a Roundtable on 鈥淚nternational Institutions and Peaceful Change鈥�.

Nato-Russia tensions: what a Biden administration can do to lower the temperature

In the article professor Amelie Theussen and Senior Researcher Dominika Kunertova analyze the tensions between Nato and Russia. They describe what kind of policy priorities a Biden administration should have to lower the temperature.

BBC News: 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials

On November 20, Kerstin Carlson was on BBC News discussing the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials (Video: Tom Webb, BBC News).

Center for War Studies to host event at the Munich Security Conference

NATO @70: The Alliance鈥檚 Future Tasks and Roles

Read the summary of our NATO@70 conference with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, written by CWS PhD-candidates Vicky Karyoti and Michael Gjerstad. The conference was organized by Dominika Kunertova, Postdoc at CWS, in collaboration with the Royal Danish Defence College and the Royal Danish Military Academy and took place on 6. September 2019 at Frederiksberg Place.

Western states must repatriate IS fighters and their families before more break free from Syrian camps

Kerstin Carlson, Associate Professor at CWS, argues in her latest article for The Conversation that European powers have dallied over the question of what to do with the tens of thousands of Islamic State (IS) fighters and adherents captured following the fall of the so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq for more than a year. Now, with the US decision to withdraw troops and Turkey鈥檚 subsequent invasion of northern Syria on October 9, the West has lost the luxury of inaction as a rising number of detainees are escaping.

CWS annual conference summary 2019

Alice Pannier Learning coalitions

Interested in collective learning within NATO and coalitions but were you unable to attend Alice Pannier's presentation at 海角社区 in January? Then, take some time to read about her main conclusions here.

Why the NATO summit could deal a major blow to the international order

Trine Flockhart highlights the dangers of Donald Trump and his behavior for the liberal international order in light of the 2018 NATO summit. Can and will the international order survive President Trump?

War studies in a changing world

Did you miss CWS鈥� annual conference in October 2018? Don鈥檛 worry, Vasiliki Karyoti and Michael Gjerstad have put together a summary of discussions and presentations at the conference.

Why the new Arctic 鈥楥old War鈥� is a dangerous myth

Are we really on the brink of a new 鈥楥old War鈥� in the Arctic and what are the consequences of this rhetoric? Danita Catherine Burke argues that considering the increased military spending and activities in the Arctic region as 鈥渁 new Cold War鈥� detracts from the broader roles that militaries play throughout the Arctic and stokes the very tensions it warns of.

Gbagbos acquittal suggests confusion and dysfuction at the ICC

Kerstin Carlson analyses how the acquittal of highlights the messy, foundational disagreements pronounced within the institution itself 鈥� between prosecution and bench, within the trial chamber, between trial and appellate chambers 鈥� that render the International Criminal Court dysfunctional.

Understanding Russian soft power

Were you fascinated by Homeland´s last season featuring Russian influence in the US? Do you want to learn more about the strategies developed by the Kremlin? Vincent C. Keating, associate professor at the CWS, offers you two useful resources on the matter.