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.
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. Katharina Cramer and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer will lead a sub-project of the four-year EU project called ReMade@ARI from September 1st.
The Digital Dependence Index provides a precise description of the state of affairs that can be used to assess whether the current policy approach in Brussels and Berlin, as well as the extent of the investments that have been initiated, are more than merely symbolic.
Dr. Hans-Dieter Heumann, former President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy, comments on the joint statement of Federal Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius with Arvydas Anušauskas (Minister of Defense Lithuania) on the Ukraine war.
Senior Fellow Dr. Moritz Brake in an interview on Deutschlandfunk's "Europa heute".
James Bindenagel in a guest post at Bituk Media on the anniversary of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine.
Dr. Joachim Weber in a guest article for FOCUS online on the topic: Der strahlende Sieg Kiews ist eine schöne Idee - Wirklichkeit wird sie nicht
Dr. Hans-Dieter Heumann, former President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy, comments on the role of the Weimar Triangle at the Munich Security Conference
Dr. Joachim Weber on China's peace initiative and with a summary of the 59th Munich Security Conference.
Studiotalk on Phoenix: Dr. Joachim Weber's assessment of Defense Minister Pistorius' visit to Kiev.
Studiotalk on Phoenix: Dr. Joachim Weber's assessment of further arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Events
CASSIS offers a wide range of events on current foreign and security policy issues.
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.
In his publication, Dr. Frank Umbach discusses the urgency of a networked security policy.
In his publication, Dr. Frank Umbach discusses the effectiveness of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
Dr. Frank Umbach discusses the energy policy cooperation between the EU and Norway.
A publication by Dr. Iulian Romanyshyn, Research Fellow of CASSIS on NATO's Black Sea Strategic Alignment.
Together with Amir Elalouf, Maximilian Mayer has contributed a chapter called "Assessing the Financial and Geoeconomic Implications of China’s Digital Currency" in a publication edited by Tim Rühlig. It highlights the possible effects of the e-CNY on European security, values and competitiveness, and recommends steps to improve Europe’s economic and technological stance.
CASSIS - Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn