International Relations and Security Network

Founded in 1994, the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is an open source information service based at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich.) in Zurich, Switzerland. Website: isn.ethz.ch/

The ISN seeks the free flow and exchange of information between international relations and security professionals globally, producing a base of research and publications that topically is diverse. The ISN's stated purpose is to facillitate a greater comprehension of the complex security environments in the world curently.

The ISN staff is comprised of individuals of varied backgrounds that includes the humanities, the social sciences, and information/communication technology.

They also have relationships with many competent partner policy orgs, both governmental and NGO, and support this network's flow of data through conferences, and seminars, as well as being the repository from which the information is exchanged electronically. The varied cooperative partnerships enable the ISN to offer a large quantity of multifaceted products and services, freely.

Principle Partners

 * Center for Comparative and International Studies - (CIS)
 * Center for Security Studies - (CSS)
 * Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network - (CRN)
 * Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact - (PHP)
 * Swiss Foreign and Security Policy Network - (SSN)
 * Atlantic Council of the United States
 * Bonn International Center for Conversion - (BICC)
 * Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) Belgrade
 * Center for Defence and Security Strategic Studies - (CDSSS)
 * Centre for European Policy Studies - (CEPS)
 * Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
 * Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
 * CIDOB Foundation
 * Columbia International Affairs Online - (CIAO)
 * Commonwealth Institute
 * Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
 * Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
 * Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies
 * European Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies - (EINIRAS)
 * European Policy Centre - (EPC)
 * European Stability Initiative - (ESI)
 * Finnish Institute of International Affairs - (FIIA)
 * Geneva Centre for Security Policy - (GCSP)
 * Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces - (DCAF)
 * Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining - (GICHD)
 * Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI Foundation)
 * Gulf Research Center - (GRC)
 * Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
 * Human Security Centre - (HSC)
 * Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies - (IDSS)
 * International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research - (ICPVTR)
 * INCORE (International Conflict Research)
 * International Crisis Group
 * Institute for Security and International Studies - (ISIS)
 * NATO Defense College (NDC)
 * NATO Headquarters
 * New Defence Agenda (NDA)
 * Oxford Council on Good Governance (OCGG)
 * PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes
 * Portuguese Institute for International Relations and Security - (IPRIS)
 * Russia in Global Affairs
 * Russia Profile
 * Saferworld
 * Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - (SIPRI)
 * South Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
 * Swiss Air Force
 * Swisspeace
 * The Henry L. Stimson Center
 * The Jamestown Foundation
 * The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (PIPSS)
 * The Power and Interest News Report - (PINR)
 * Transnational Crime and Corruption Center - (TraCCC)
 * United Nations University - (UNU)
 * Verification Research, Training and Information Centre - (VERTIC)
 * Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

Affiliated Partners
ISN Affiliated Partners are academic institutes, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, media, and private companies that support the ISN's goals and maintain close cooperation and dialog with the ISN.

International Orgs.

 * NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA)
 * Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
 * United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
 * Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA)

Gov. Ministries, Departments, and Institutes

 * Academy of Sciences, Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (INIMA)
 * Directorate for Civil Defence and Emergency Planning (DSB)
 * Swiss Federal Office for National Economic Supply (FONES), [[Federal Department of Economic Affairs
 * Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN)
 * Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Swedish Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)
 * Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (DDPS/VBS)
 * Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (UK MoD)

Military Academies

 * Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), US Military Academy
 * National Defence Academy of the Republic of Latvia (NDA)
 * National Defence College of Sweden (FHS)
 * National Defence University of Romania (NDU)
 * Rakovski Defence and Staff College

Training Institutes

 * Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC)

Research Inst. and NGOs in the Americas

 * Avalon Project, Yale Law School
 * Carter Center
 * Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
 * Consejo Didáctico para Estudiantes de Relaciones Internacionales (CDERI)
 * EastWest Institute (EWI)
 * Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
 * Iraq Revenue Watch
 * Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Research Inst. and NGOs in Western Europe

 * Bancaja International Center for Peace and Development (CIBPD)
 * Berlin International-center for Transatlantic Security (BITS)
 * Centre for Analysis of Security (CEAS)
 * Centre of Research for Peace (CRP)
 * Cicero Foundation
 * Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS)
 * Department of Political Science, Free University of Brussels (POL/VUB)
 * DiploFoundation, University of Malta
 * European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
 * Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)
 * Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)
 * Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
 * Institute for Geopolitics and Geoeconomic Studies (ISGeo)
 * Institute of International Affairs (IAI)
 * International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA)
 * International Conflict Research (INCORE)
 * International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
 * Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael)
 * Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan (SOTA)
 * Research Institute for European Studies and American Studies (RIEAS)
 * Roosevelt Study Center (RSC)
 * Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
 * The Network University (TNU)

Research Inst. and NGOs in East Europe and Eurasia

 * Center for International Security Studies (CISS)
 * Center for Peace, Conversion, and Foreign Policy of Ukraine (CPCFPU)
 * Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center)
 * Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD)
 * Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association (GRENA)
 * Institute for the USA and Canada Studies (ISKRAN)
 * Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)
 * Institute of International Economic and Political Studies (IIEPS RAS)
 * International Center for Human Development (ICHD)
 * National Information Learning Centre (NILC)
 * Political Science Research Centre (PSRC)
 * Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

Media Orgs

 * EurasiaNet
 * Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
 * Investigative Reporting Resource Center for SEE (SEE IR)
 * Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
 * Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
 * Transitions Online (TOL)

Specialized Networks
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) and the ISN support several specialized networks by providing these with an online platform for presenting their research and with information technology expertise.
 * Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management NetworkComprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network - isn.ethz.ch/crn

The CRN is run in cooperation with international partners. Its focus is on national-level security risks and corresponding threat and defense strategies. The purpose of the project is to develop scientific expertise for identifying, evaluating, and analyzing security policy threats.


 * Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact - isn.ethz.ch/php

The PHP provides new perspectives on contemporary international history by analyzing formerly secret documents. In response to the declassification of NATO records and the growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, the PHP, as an international consortium of more than 20 partner institutes, brings together leading Cold War historians, archivists, and governmental officials. They present their findings to the academic community at conferences and through hard copy and online publications. Since 1999, PHP affiliates have collected a wealth of material on security related issues from the Cold War. They have also published online documentaries on issues like mutual threat perceptions and alliance management, and have organized major international conferences on war planning, intelligence, and intra-bloc tensions.


 * Swiss Foreign and Security Policy Network - ssn.ethz.ch

Swiss Foreign and Security Policy Network The SSN offers comprehensive, targeted, and user-friendly access to information, activities, and research findings in the field of Swiss foreign and security policy. It provides academics, policy-makers, military personnel, and the general public with academic publications, a chronology of events relevant to Swiss security policy since 1992, an extensive collection of links, a selection of background articles from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung daily newspaper, and an events calendar. The SSN further provides dossiers on a range of Swiss security policy issues. The SSN functions as a platform for networking, dialog, and information exchange.
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Top Levels Category Links to ISN information

 * NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
 * Security Watch
 * Russian Regional Report
 * Current World Affairs Links
 * Dossiers
 * Online Subscriptions
 * RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
 * Publishing House
 * Links Library
 * Limited Area Search (LASE)
 * Facts Database (FIRST)
 * Acronyms and Abbreviations
 * EDUCATION AND EVENTS
 * Events Calendar
 * International Security Forum (ISF)
 * e-Learning-Project Overview
 * e-Learning-ADL
 * e-Learning-Distance Learning
 * Security Sector IT Training
 * PfP Partnership Forum

Contact

 * International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
 * ETH Zentrum LEH
 * CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
 * Tel: +41 (0)44 632 07 57/40 25
 * Fax: +41 (0)44 632 14 13
 * Email: Online Web Form
 * Web Address: www.isn.ethz.ch
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