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The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation, created under the framework of Swiss participation in the Partnership for Peace.

The GCSP has three core missions:

The Foundation Members include: Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Canton of Geneva.

Additional Materials from The Geneva Centre for Security Policy: Policy Briefs


Working Papers

Title: The Middle East: Change and Upheaval 2013
Authors: Dr Christian Koch, Dr Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Dr Klejda Mulaj
Date: December 2013

Title: Bringing Back Transitology: Democratisation in the 21st Century
Authors: Dr Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Timothy Sisk
Date: November 2013

Title: Virtuality, Perception and Reality in Myanmar's Democratic Reform
Authors: Victoria Christensen
Date: August 2013

Title: Caucasus 2025: A Vision
Authors: Alain Guidetti, Ekaterina Palazzolo
Date: June 2013

Title: World Views : Negotiating the North Korean Nuclear Issue
Authors: Alain Guidetti
Date: May 2013

Title: 10th GCSP/Crown Center/GRC Annual Conference: "The Middle East: Change and Upheaval 2012"
Authors: Christian Koch
Date: April 2013

Title: Cooperative Security: A New Paradigm for a World Without Nuclear Weapons?
Authors: Marc Finaud
Date: February 2013

Title: The Security Implications of the Arab Spring
Authors: Eberhard Kienle
Date: January 2013

Title: Taking the Rule of Law Seriously: More Legal Certainty for UN Police in Peacekeeping Missions
Authors: Thomas Fitschen
Date: December 2012

Title: Virtuality, Perception and Reality in Myanmar's Democratic Reform
Authors: Victoria Christensen
Date: August 2012

Title: Meeting the Cyber Security Challenge
Authors: Gustav Lindstrom
Date: June 2012

Title: Developments and Implications of Missile Defence
Authors: Gustav Lindstrom
Date: March 2012

Title: Regional and International Energy Security Dynamics: Consequences for NATO's Search for an Energy Security Role
Authors: Phillip Cornell
Date: January 2012

Title: Great Expectations: UN Peacekeeping, Civilian Protection, and the Use of Force
Authors: Alan Doss
Date: December 2011

Title: The Role of Parliaments in Arms Control, Disarmament, and the Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Authors: Marc Finaud
Date: October 2011

Title: Reinforcing Disarmament: Combating Illicit Trade in Weapons and Materials
Authors: Philipp Annawitt, Marc Finaud
Date: October 2011

Title: For a Renewed Consensus on UN Peacekeeping Operations
Authors: Thierry Tardy
Date: October 2011

Title: The Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda: Lessons in Post-September 11 Transnational Terrorism
Authors: Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Date: July 2011

Title: Cooperating to Build Peace: The UN-EU Inter-Institutional Complex
Authors: Thierry Tardy
Date: May 2011

Title: The Global Puzzle: Order in an Age of Primacy, Power-Shifts and Interdependence
Authors: Graeme P. Herd
Date: January 2011

Title: Global Security and Regional Responses: Conflict Management in a Fractured World
Authors: Philipp Annawitt
Date: January 2011

Title: Beyond Geopolitics: Common Challenges, Joint Solutions?
Authors: Gustav Lindstrom
Date: January 2011

Title: Sanctions and Weapons of Mass Destruction in International Relations
Authors: Bernard Sitt, Masahiko Asada, Anthony Aust, Mikael Eriksson, Edward Ifft, Ambassador Arend Meerburg
Date: July 2010

Title: Safety and Security in the Biotechnological Age
Authors: Marc Finaud, Sunjay Chandiramani
Date: July 2010

Title: Cooperating for Peace: The Challenges and Promises of Partnerships in Peace Operations
Date: July 2010

Title: Beyond the 'New Horizon': Proceedings from the UN Peacekeeping Future Challenges Seminar, Geneva, 23–24 June 2010
Authors: Cedric H. de Coning, Andreas Øien Stensland, Thierry Tardy
Date: June 2010

Title: Whither the Euro-Atlantic Partnership? Partnership and NATO's New Strategic Concept
Authors: Jean-Jacques de Dardel
Date: March 2009

Title: Security Strategies Today: Trends and Perspectives
Authors: Sunjay Chandiramani, Fred Tanner, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan
Date: March 2009

Title: Central Asia Seminars 1st GCSP-OSCE Academy Seminar: "Central Asia 2008"
Authors: Selbi Hanova
Date: February 2009

Title: The Gstaad Process: The West's Relations with Russia: Towards a Cold Peace?
Authors: Jon Strandquist
Date: January 2009

Title: Missile Defence Systems: Global and Regional Implications
Authors: Dennis M. Gormley, Catherine M. Kelleher, Scott Warren
Date: October 2008

Title: Middle East Perspectives: Conference Proceedings from Gstaad, Switzerland
Authors: David Aaron, Shahram Chubin, Shai Feldman, Abdulaziz Sager
Date: September 2008

Title: Operationalising Mediation Support: Lessons from Mediation Experiences in the OSCE Area
Authors: Miriam Fugfugosh
Date: July 2008

Title: Peace Operations and Organised Crime
Authors: James Cockayne, Daniel Pfister
Date: June 2008

Title: Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges
Authors: Emily J. Munro
Date: May 2008

Title: The Role of the European Union in International Non-proliferation and Disarmament Assistance
Authors: Ian Anthony, Marc Finaud
Date: April 2006

Title: GCSP UN Dialogue Series
Authors: Derek Lutterbeck (ed.)
Date: October 2005

Title: Three Years of the Global Partnership. A View by Russia
Authors: V. Semin
Date: July 2005

Title: The G8 Global Partnership on Weapons of Mass Destruction: What Next?
Authors: Daniil Kobyakov, Vladimir Orlov
Date: June 2005

Title: The G8 Global Partnership: Background and Current Status
Authors: Cristina Chuen
Date: April 2005

Title: Preventing the Brain Drain: Russia and Beyond
Authors: Vitaly Fedchenko
Date: April 2005

Title: The Role of the EU in International Non-proliferation and Disarmament Assistance
Authors: Ian Anthony
Date: September 2004

Title: Switzerland and Cooperative Threat Reduction
Authors: Derek Lutterbeck
Date: September 2004

Title: The Brahimi Report: Four Years On. Proceedings from the Workshop on Peacekeeping Operations
Authors: Thierry Tardy
Date: June 2004

Title: Political Islam: The Challenges for US Policy Iran (and Turkey)
Authors: Shahram Chubin
Date: June 2003

Title: Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Issues in Latin America: Evolution and Recent Developments
Authors: Richard Narich
Date: January 2003

Title: The "Evil Axis" One Year On
Authors: Shahram Chubin
Date: January 2003

Title: Transatlantic Relations in a Unipolar World
Authors: William Wohlforth
Date: August 2002

Title: The European Union: Energy Security and the Periphery
Authors: John Gault
Date: August 2002

Title: Europe and the Middle East: Towards A Substantive Role in the Peace Process?
Authors: Roland Dannreuther
Date: August 2002

Title: Terrorism and Asymmetric Conflict in Southwest Asia
Authors: Shahram Chubin, Jerold D. Green
Date: June 2002

Title: The European Union as a Security Actor in the Mediterranean
Authors: Joanna Schemm, Fred Tanner
Date: October 2001

Title: Terrorism: Threat and Responses
Authors: Jean-Louis Bruguière
Date: October 2001

Title: The Development of a Common European Security and Defence Policy (CESDP) by the European Union and its POSSIBLE Consequences for Switzerland
Authors: Philippe Braillard, Pal Dunay, Rene Schwok, Fred Tanner
Date: September 2001

Title: U.S.-EU Relations after the Introduction of the Euro and the Reinvention of European Security and Defence
Authors: Pal Dunay
Date: August 2000

Title: Through the Glass Ceiling: Towards a New Security Regime for Europe?
Authors: Anne Deighton
Date: August 2000

Title: The United States and Europe: Smooth Sailing or Storm Clouds Ahead?
Authors: William Hitchcock
Date: August 2000

Title: The Role of the EU in Peace-Building in the Mediterranean
Authors: Fred Tanner
Date: August 2000

Title: Russian Perception of European Security
Authors: Yuri Nazarkin
Date: August 2000

Title: Russia's Eurasian Security Policy
Authors: Roland Dannreuther
Date: August 2000

Title: Recoiling from Russia
Authors: Andre Liebich
Date: August 2000

Title: NATO's Past, NATO's Future
Authors: , John Lewis Gaddis
Date: August 2000

Title: Kosovo's Evolving Contest: Security, Policy and Sovereignty
Authors: Charles H. Norchi
Date: August 2000

Title: Beyond Enlargement: NATO's Role in Russia's Relations with the West
Authors: S. Neil MacFarlane
Date: August 2000

Title: US Perceptions of NATO Deployments Beyond Europe and of European Capabilities
Authors: Stuart Johnson
Date: July 1999

Title: The Persian Gulf
Authors: Shahram Chubin
Date: July 1999

Title: European Political Considerations on Operations Beyond Europe
Authors: Klaus Becher
Date: July 1999

Title: Emerging European Power Projection Capabilities
Authors: Francois Heisbourg
Date: July 1999

Title: Ways to Improve the Implementation and Enforcement of Arms Control Agreements - Role of Verification
Authors: Jozef Goldblat
Date: January 1999

Title: The NPT, Multilateralism and Security in the XXIst Century
Authors: Therese Delpech
Date: January 1999

Title: The CFE Compliance Record a Decade After Treaty Signature
Authors: Karoly Banai, Pal Dunay
Date: January 1999

Title: Questions of Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Peace Building  and Arms Control
Authors: Knut Nustad
Date: January 1999

Title: Questions of Compliance: The Case of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Control Regime
Authors: Marie Chevrier, Iris Hunger
Date: January 1999

Title: Promoting Compliance: Observations on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
Authors: David Atwood
Date: January 1999

Title: Implementation of Multilateral Arms Control Agreements: Questions of Compliance - Chemical Weapons
Authors: Heiner Staub
Date: January 1999

Title: Implementation of Multilateral Arms Control Agreements:  Questions of Compliance-Nuclear Tests
Authors: Trevor Findlay
Date: January 1999

Title: Implementation of Multilateral Arms Control Agreements:  Questions of Compliance - The case of the Missile Technology Control Regime
Authors: Yuri Nazarkin
Date: January 1999

Title: Demilitarisation and (Lack of?) Transformation in Kosovo
Authors: Robert Neil Cooper
Date: January 1999

Title: Coping With Uncertainty: The 'Vienna and Berlin Mechanisms' In Light of the Experience of Their First Decade
Authors: Pal Dunay
Date: January 1999

Title: Compliance with Future Nuclear Arms Control Agreements and Implementation of Possible Declarations on Unilateral Reduction
Authors: Yuri Nazarkin
Date: January 1999

Title: Arms Control, Conflict and Peace Settlements: The Caucasus
Authors: S. Neil MacFarlane
Date: January 1999

Title: Arms Control, Conflict and Peace Settlements
Authors: Fred Tanner
Date: January 1999

Title: Arms Control Regimes under the Dayton Agreement
Authors: Heinz Vetschera
Date: January 1999

Title: Arms control in reluctant installments: Iraq and North Korea
Authors: Christopher Carle
Date: January 1999

Title: 'Decommissioning' and Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland: Lessons for the Arms Control Community
Authors: Jessica Huie, Andrew Latham
Date: January 1999

Title: Security Issues for Russia in the New International Context
Authors: Yuri Nazarkin
Date: August 1998

Title: Prospects for Europe and the Atlantic Alliance at Century's End
Authors: William I. Hitchcock
Date: August 1998

Title: New Security Challenge or Old? Russia's Catch—22
Authors: , William C. Wohlforth
Date: August 1998

Title: Muddling Through? A Strategic Checklist for the United States in the Post-Cold War World
Authors: John Lewis Gaddis
Date: August 1998

Title: How Will the European Union Meet the 21st Century
Authors: Pal Dunay
Date: August 1998

Title: Conflict Management and European Security: The Problem of Collective Solidarity
Authors: Fred Tanner
Date: August 1998