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 2022
From 29 September to 2 October 2022, the ISFB took place for the seventh time in the UN and federal city as the most significant international security conference in North Rhine-Westphalia and all neighboring federal states. After two years of digital/hybrid implementation during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in 2022, the ISFB was conducted entirely in person.
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.
EUCERS: Climate an Energy Security
European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security
Lead:
Dr. Friedbert Pflüger
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz,
Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg,
Security and Strategy Research
Henry Kissinger Professorship for Security and Strategy Research
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie
Global Infrastructure
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.
Prof. James Bindenagel, Senior Fellow at CASSIS and Former Henry Kissinger Professor of Security and Strategic Studies, and Thomas Risse make the case for the country's EU and NATO membership and what that would mean for all involved.
CASSIS Senior Fellow Ambassador (ret.) Dirk Brengelmann takes over from Ruprecht Polenz as Dean of the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL). The whole CASSIS congratulates very warmly!
The GDL is a platform of the Federal Foreign Office for the exchange between diplomats and experts from non-governmental organisations, companies, cultural institutions and foundations. The GDL focuses on the joint search for new and more inclusive types of diplomacy and the formulation of approaches to action that go beyond conventional politics.
Applications are now welcome for a long-term lecturer position at Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
A cooperation between the Center for X-rays in Swedish Material Science (CeXS) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Linköping University and CASSIS will explore German-Swedish collaboration at Research Infrastructures.
Frederik Schmitz is funded for his research project on the role of emotions and sensory perceptions in memory infrastructures in Taiwan and which influence these have on parties' political support. His case study examines museums and restaurants as nostalgic memory sites run by supporters and members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). These memory sites enable visitors to take a performative part in a curated Taiwanese past and let it affect them through sensory perceptions. According to the research hypothesis, these memory infrastructures are used to gain political support through nostalgia.
This Festschrift in honor of Professor Xuewu Gu's 65th birthday brings together contributions on two closely intertwined key phenomena in international relations: Power and Power Shifts.
With contributions from numerous CASSIS members such as Prof. James D. Bindenagel, Dr. Enrico Fels, Dr. Hans-Dieter Heumann, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz, Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie.
Cassis staff members Maximilian Schranner, Frederik Schmitz and Philip Nock, together with Lukas Hochscheidt and Leonie Hopgood, write a post on Blog 49security about why the next generation of security policymakers is ready to take responsibility for tough decisions.
Dr. Katharina C. Cramer receives presitgious DAAD PRIME Fellowship.
Dr. Joachim Weber, Senior Fellow at CASSIS, comments on new arms deliveries to Ukraine.
"Phoenix plus G7 - Summit of the Mighty looks back at almost 50 years of summit events. Dr. Joachim Weber, historian and political scientist at the CASSIS Institute of the University of Bonn, explains the context."
Dr. Joachim Weber, Senior Fellow of CASSIS, comments on Ukraine's aircrafts and jet power.
Prof. James Bindenagel, Senior Fellow at CASSIS and Former Henry Kissinger Professor of Security and Strategic Studies, and Thomas Risse make the case for the country's EU and NATO membership and what that would mean for all involved.
Tweet: #UkraineKrieg | "Im Moment tut man wirklich, was man kann", so Strategieexperte Dr. Joachim Weber @cassis_bonn. Er sieht einen Wandel bei deutschen #WaffenLieferungen an die #Ukraine. Anfänglich war das sehr zögerlich, mittlerweile werde aber so viel geliefert wie möglich.
Video Attached
Dr. Joachim Weber, Senior Fellow at CASSIS, comments on the drone attack on the Kremlin.
Dr. Joachim Weber, Senior Fellow at CASSIS, classifies the deployment of the German Armed Forces in Sudan.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer and Dr. Gedaliah Afterman explore in an article for the Global Policy Journal how middle powers can shape their foreign and technology policies through engagement in minilateral formats.
Events
CASSIS offers a wide range of events on current foreign and security policy issues.
Drawing on the Digital Dependence Index, Michelle Gassner and Barbara Schallhart discuss Saudi-Arabia's digital dependence in their article.
Drawing on the Digital Dependence Index, Jonas Prinsen discusses South Korea's digital dependence in his article.
Niklas Almasi & Philipp van Helden discuss Germany's digital dependency in their article.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer and Prof. Josef Gregory Mahoney, Professor of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University, have edited a Special Issue of the Journal on Chinese Political Science.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer and Kunhan Li, coctoral candidate at the University of Nottingham — Ningbo, China, investigate Chinese space diplomacy and its bifurcation between institutionalised multilateral cooperation and state-centric bilateral co-operation.
Dr. Frank Umbach discusses German-Chinese relations in his publication.
In his publication, Dr. Frank Umbach discusses the protection of critical infrastructures in the context of the war in Ukaine
In his Sirius Magazine publication, Dr. Frank Umbach discusses the strategic errors, mistakes and collective misconceptions of German energy policy since 2002.
CASSIS - Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn