The Center for Crisis Early Warning cordially invites you to the CCEW SYMPOSIUM 2023 "Crisis Early Warning: What's Next?" on October 23 and 24, 2023.

In the podcast "Critically Linked" Eva Herschinger talks about the topicality of the work "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

Kerstin Albrecht, Christian Nitzl and Uwe Borghoff publish on how software engineering and intelligence and security research can benefit from each other.

As part of the university's anniversary, the CISS will participate a lecture and panel discussion (though only in German...). Register now!

The new students in the MISS program were welcomed at the University of the Armed Forces. This is now the 5th cohort.

Eva Herschinger talks about women in terrorism and the many stereotypes and prejudices surrounding female terrorists in an episode of the SZ Geschichte Daily Podcast.

The U.S. Cyberintelligence Tour of the Federal Ministry of Defense is on the road again! Once across the United States - with a stop at the German Consul General in San Francisco.

In two handbook and two edited volume contributions, Eva Herschinger addresses theories, ideologies, and prevention of terrorism as well as online radicalization and gender.

Invitation to the KompZ KFE-Symposium 2022 "Thinking ahead: avenues and challenges in crisis forecasting" , 7-8 November 2022

New article with the participation of Christian Nitzl examines the influence of organizational structure on administrative innovations. Open Access!

Two new contributions by Eva Herschinger on the topic of gender and terrorism in the richly illustrated volume of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

Presentation by Uwe Borghoff on "Software Development for Early Crisis Detection" at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems

Marcel Schmeer reports from the 53rd Historikertag on the section on the relationship between the public and intelligence services since 1945. Report freely available on the online portal H-Soz-Kult.

Eva Herschinger talks about the importance of women in terrorism in the podcast of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

Prof. Merith Niehuss, President of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, gets an insight in the course in Berlin.

At the invitation of Duke University School of Law in Durham, NC, Verena Jackson is spending two months in the USA.

In International Relations, much research has been done on the relationship between structure and agency.... But: new, fresh ideas on the topic by Eva Herschinger and Frank Sauer. Open Access!

Joint Project: CISS managing director Holger Prüßing and CISS-Senior Researcher Christian Nitzl team up with Infineon for business wargaming

Submission of abstracts for the workshop "Predicting Conflict" of the Competence Center for Crisis Early Warning now open!

Christian Nitzl's co-authored paper on mediation analysis is the most cited paper in the International Journal of Market Research and was nominated for the Silver Medal by the Market Research Society.

Deradicalization work for women and girls in the area of Salafism is still in its infancy. The project aims to contribute with new concepts and insights.

Conspiracy movements like QAnon, explains Eva Herschinger in an interview with the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from Heidelberg, are a potential danger to democracy.

The third cohort of the Master for Intelligence and Security Studies (MISS) has started their studies. A different kind of start - studying under COVID-19 pandemic conditions.

Christian Nitzl, together with the start-up company Aleph Alpha, took an excellent 3rd place among 80 applicants in this year's NATO Innovation Challenge "Trust Autonomous Systems".

In a new publication Eva Herschinger, Kemal Bozay, Magdalena von Drachenfels, Oliver Decker and Christian Joppke analyze factors that favor societal radicalization.

The radicalization of women can be understood as politicization argues Eva Herschinger.

Christian Nitzl receives his habilitation certificate as a highlight of his academic career from Dean Prof. Stephan Kaiser.

Those interested in security and intelligence research should check out the new Twitter account of the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies @cissmunich.

In his co-authored article, Dr. Christian Nitzl presents the Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA). CCA is used for the measurement of not directly observable facts.

For the first cohort of students of the Master of Intelligence and Security Studies (MISS) program, home stretch is slowly beginning: Starting in August, the master's thesis is on the agenda.