Our Mission
The Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) is an interdisciplinary research center at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in the field of strategic foresight, European and security policy research. Committed to the approach "Global Challenges Need European Responses", CASSIS contributes in interdisciplinary and inter-institutional work to develop, evaluate and publicly discuss European strategies to current challenges in the field of foreign and security policy.
Current
Dossier Ukraine
The experts of CASSIS offer in various formats from their interdisciplinary perspectives classification and analysis on the Russian attack on Ukraine and its background.
The International Security Forum Bonn 2023
From 19 October to 22 October 2023, ISFB will be held for the eighth time in person on the premises of the University of Excellence Bonn as the most important international security conference in North Rhine-Westphalia and all neighboring federal states.
Our Focus
Research at CASSIS revolves around a broad conception of security: On the one hand, the focus lies on the interdisciplinary examination of traditional foreign and security issues such as inter-state conflicts, competing international systems of order and a return of geopolitics. On the other hand, researchers examine non-traditional security challenges such as cyber and energy security, terrorism and human security, focusing in particular on health and food security.
Integrated Security and Global Sustainability
Lead:
Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie
Security and Strategy Research
Henry Kissinger Professorship for Security and Strategy Research
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie
Global Infrastructures
Politik and Governance of Global Infrastructures
Lead:
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
International Security Forum Bonn
The ISFB is a high-level international event to ensure dialogue on current foreign and security policy issues.
What does hybrid warfare mean and how can it be countered? On 2 March 2024, the Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik, together with CASSIS and Polis180, organised an interactive workshop on this highly topical question. Students from the Master's programme "Strategy and International Security" (MSIS) also took part in the simulation game.
The AStA of Ruhr-Universität Bochum organised a discussion between Prof. Dr Ulrich Schlie and Berthold Graf von Stauffenberg on 19 February 1924 under the title "20 July 1944: A traitor's child all of a sudden", to which university students were invited.
Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at the age of 100.
Dr. Cramer receives one of ten EXIST-Women scholarships awarded by the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn and financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
A high-profile delegation from the University of Ghana visited the University of Bonn as part of the International Days. The two universities are linked by a strategic partnership based on university-wide cooperation in the areas of study, teaching and research. Following a visit by the Bonn university management to Accra before the start of the global corona pandemic, the return visit from Ghana, which lasted several days, was an important milestone in the cooperation.
CASSIS Senior Fellow James. D. Bindenagel comments on the development of Germany's international position in CIVIS magazine (Aug/2023) and on the American-German Institute's website.
Ambassador (ret.) Dr. Hans-Dieter Heumann, Senior Fellow at CASSIS, will speak about what impact the current situation in Israel may have on the relationship between Israel and its Arab neighbors, especially Saudi Arabia.
CASSIS Fellow Prof. Dr. Heinemann-Grüder talks about the presidential election in Russia and its significance for domestic and foreign policy in an interview with Phoenix.
CASSIS Fellow Prof. Dr. Heinemann-Grüder explains the Russian strategy of hybrid warfare at web.de.
In an interview with the Bonner Generalanzeiger, CASSIS Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach talks about the threat that Russia poses to Germany's critical infrastructure.
CASSIS Director and holder of the Henry Kissinger Professorship for Security and Strategy Research, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie, criticizes the Pope's appeal for peace in an opinion piece in the international Catholic magazine "Communio". According to Schlie, the Pope's appeal was too one-sided and only addressed Ukraine.
In an interview with Phoenix, CASSIS Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach talks about the activities of pro-Ukrainian Russian volunteer groups that have become active again in the Belgorod region.
CASSIS Fellow Dr. Joachim Weber sees Ukraine's hopes of victory fading. In an interview with FOCUS online, the security expert expands on his pessimistic scenario.
In an interview with NTV, CASSIS Fellow Dr. Frank Umbach talks about current developments in the war in Gaza. Topics include the airlift and the difficulties involved in delivering humanitarian aid by sea.
The Ukraine crisis has put Franco-German relations to the test. Dr. Landry Charrier, CASSIS Fellow and expert on Franco-German relations, analyzes the positions of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.
Events
CASSIS offers a wide range of events on current foreign and security policy issues.
The Bonn Vision Lab 2030 brought together young scientists at CASSIS to share their visions for the coming years. The results and methodology of the workshop were summarized in the report.
Dr Landry Charrier talks about the growing strength of the Rassemblement National in the Franco-German dialogue. He warns of the consequences that a strong showing by the right-wing populists in the European elections in June could have, focusing in particular on France's relationship with Germany.
CASSIS Fellow Dr Johanna Möhring discusses the problems of Franco-German armaments cooperation and develops four scenarios for its future development.
CASSIS Fellow Dr Johanna Möhring analyses Russia's ambitions in the Ukraine war.
Prof. Dr Maximilian Mayer & Dr. Susanne Peters discuss the security implications arising from the interplay between energy security, new energy technologies and the dynamics of climate change in an article for the newly published "Handbook on Climate Change and International Security",
Prof. Dr Maximilian Mayer & Yen-Chi Lu, PhD student at CASSIS, discuss in their article for
SIRIUS - Journal for Strategic Analyses, they discuss Europe's position within the structures of global digital dependency. To do so, they draw on the "Digital Dependence Index", a measurement of the dependencies of various countries in the field of digital technologies.
Under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer Guest, the Special Issue "Politics of Memory, Heritage, and Diversity in Modern China" was recently published in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. In various articles and in the introduction by Maximilian Mayer & Karolina Pawlik, the Special Issue addresses questions of the interaction between collective memory and Chinese identity, cultural modernisation and political mobilisation.
Nicolas Huppenbauer, Research Fellow and Doctoral Student at CASSIS, focuses on the geopolitical side of connectivity and Chinese standardisation practices in his new article in the "Global Media and China" journal.
CASSIS - Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn