Iran's attack on Israel marks a new level of escalation. In an interview with the Tagesspiegel on 26.04.2024, Prof. Dr Ulrich Schlie analyses Iran's efforts to become a nuclear power.

In an interview with WELT, CASSIS Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach assesses Germany's current energy policy against the backdrop of the figures presented by Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck.

In an interview with NTV, CASSIS Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach assesses the current debate on Western arms deliveries to Ukraine and the ATACMS delivery in particular, and analyzes the German position.

In an interview with phoenix, CASSIS Director Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg (political scientist) gave an insight into the current espionage case involving Maximilian Krah.

Ningjie Zhu, Research Fellow in the research project " Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects", examines the opportunities and risks of using WeChat as a medium for ethnographically orientated research in an article for the University of Geneva.

In the NTV interview, security expert and CASSIS-Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach assesses Russia's drone war against Ukraine and analyzes Germany's security situation against possible drone attacks.

Russia's war against Ukraine, uncertainties in Washington, dealing with China and the situation in the Middle East are four geopolitical challenges to which Europe must find an answer. According to former Ambassador Hans-Dieter Heumann, former President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and current CASSIS Fellow, this is the only way it can become a geopolitical factor.

In an interview with NTV, CASSIS Fellow and security expert Dr. Frank Umbach shed light on the background to the arrest of saboteurs on behalf of Russian secret services as part of the Kremlin's hybrid warfare.