When Visibility Becomes a Liability: Self-Shielded Contestation and the Future of Protest in 2026
Trend Report 13 / January 2026 by Ceren Çetinkaya & Osnat Lubrani
Policy analysis
The War in Ukraine: The Moment of Truth in 2026?
Trend Report 12 / January 2026 by Loïc Simonet
Declining US Support for Israel: From Bipartisan Consensus to Generational Fracture
Trend Report 11 / January 2026 by Johannes Späth
Algorithmic Truth-Making: From Border Checkpoints to Always-On Filters
Trend Report 10 / January 2026 by Özgecan Eskiduman
Succession—The Make-or-Break Moment of Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Erdoğan’s...
Trend Report 9 / January 2026 by Cengiz Günay
Chinese Foreign Policy in 2026: Exploiting the ‘America crisis’
Trend Report 8 / January 2026 by Thomas Eder
The Time of Hawks: How Hardliners Are Reshaping Euro-Atlantic Politics
Trend Report 7 / January 2026 by Loïc Simonet & Fedor Agapov
Crisis-Induced Decarbonization: How Infrastructure Breakdown and Cheap Solar Are Driving Energy...
Trend Report 6 / 2026 by Camillo Stubenberg
From Fatigue to Fragile Momentum: EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans under Geopolitical Pressure
Trend Report 5 / January 2026 by Vedran Džihić & Theresa Rauch
Wired for Power: Digital Technology as the MENA’s New Geopolitical Axis
Trend Report 4 / January 2026 by Emiliano Alessandri
Emerging Regional Architecture of Cooperation in Central Asia
Trend Report 3 / January 2026 by Kristin Höltge & Sarah Pavlis
Governing Without Consequence: Israel as a High-Visibility Indicator in 2026
Trend Report 2 / January 2026 by Osnat Lubrani
The Personal Is Still Political: Why the Rise of Misogyny Threatens Democracy
Trend Report 1 / January 2026 by Annika Scharnagl
Polen und Serbien – Über tiefe Spuren der Autokratisierung und die Mühsal der demokratischen...
Policy Brief von Vedran Džihić und Laura Füsselberger
Worrying about the bomb? – Nuclear proliferation fears & China’s foreign policy
Policy Brief by Thomas Eder and Tizian Metzner, December 2025
Infrastructural Capture: How Big Tech’s Dependency Loop Is Reshaping American Statecraft
Policy Analysis 13/2025 by Johannes Späth & Giulliano Molinero Junior
Building Connectivity, Managing Risk: The EU’s Geopolitical Role in the Black Sea
Policy Analysis 12 /2025 by Cengiz Günay, Ceren Çetinkaya, Klara Brunnsteiner, Justus...
Neue postjugoslawische Diaspora in Österreich – Postmigrantische Perspektive und Pluralität...
Policy Brief von Vedran Džihić & Henri Schultz
The OSCE back to square one? Rescuing the organization from the illusion of a CSCE-revival
Journal Article by Loïc Simonet & Raffael Kögel in the Security and Human Rights...
Africa’s growing interest in BRICS: Between pragmatism and the strive for more sovereignty
Policy Analysis 11 /2025 by Angela Meyer
BiEPAG Reacts: Bosnia and the EU Enlargement Report – A Non-Event in a Non-Process
BiEPAG Blog Post by Vedran Džihić
New Middle Powers of the ‘Global South’: Honest brokers or dishonest breakers?
Policy Brief by Loïc Simonet
The Struggle for Freedom Must Continue . . . Even in the Darkest of Times
Blog Post by Ivan Vejvoda
Das Regime treibt seine brutale Politik immer intensiver voran
Vedran Džihić im Interview in "Spiegel"
The Helsinki + 50 commemoration (30 July-1 August 2025). Main takeovers and the way forward
Report / August 2025 by Marc Perrin de Brichambaut & Loïc Simonet
The Current State of Energy Security in Europe
Policy Analysis 10 / 2025 by Josefine Paulsen, Dan Ziebarth, Cengiz Günay & Johannes...
Flawed by Design: What al-Sisi’s Egypt Reveals About the Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency
Policy Analysis 9 / 2025 by Johannes Späth
NATO is safe, but for how long? What needs to be taken from the Hague Summit (24-25 June 2025)
Policy Analysis 8 / 2025 by Sophie Draeger & Loïc Simonet
Political Borderwork in der Exklave Melilla: Organisationen des Dritten Sektors als Agentinnen...
Policy Brief von Sophie Reichelt
How to navigate the storm REFLECTIONS – Magazine of the oiip
REFLECTIONS Magazine of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs – oiip No. 2...
The ‘geopolitical’ European Union and the new Transatlantic relation 100 days after Donald...
Policy Analysis 7 / 2025 by Loïc Simonet
A Tug-of-War that Risks Snapping the Rope: Regional Competition over Post-Assad Syria
Policy Analysis 6 / 2025 by Cengiz Günay, Josefine Paulsen, Yuki Adachi
„Die Proteste könnten diesmal die Demokratie in Serbien erneuern“
Interview mit Vedran Dzihic in der Frankfurter Rundschau
Brave New World – The Future of China-US relations
Policy Analysis 6 / 2025 by Thomas Eder
Navigating neutrality: How to find the best match between NATO and its four remaining neutral...
Policy Analysis 4 / 2025 by Loïc Simonet
Neue Geopolitik am Balkan Wie Drittstatten wie China und Russland zur Autokratisierung und neuen...
Working Paper 124 von Vedran Dzihic, Thomas Eder und Veronika Nechaeva
Beyond the deregulation dilemma: the European ‘regulatory state’ at crossroads
Policy Analysis 3 /2025 by George Kalpadakis
The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism and its Impact on US Foreign Policy
Policy Brief March 2025 by Johannes Späth
Youth at a Political Crossroads: Shifting Voter Trends in Austria, Germany and the US
Policy Brief March 2025 by Annika Scharnagl
Friedrich Merz und die „Zeitenwende 2.0“: Eine „neue Ära“ für die transatlantischen...
Working Paper 123 / März 2025 von Marie Krpata
Mining in the Western Balkans – The Rise of Dangerous Transactionalism
BiEPAG Policy Brief by Vedran Džihić
United in Response: Collaborative Approaches in Protecting Places of Worship
Blog post by Annika Scharnagl written in the context of the "PARTES" project
Smoke and Mirrors: Israel Stronger or Weaker in 2025? Implications for Israel and its Neighbours
Trend Report 15 / January 2025 by Osnat Lubrani
Kickl, Orbán, Vučić: Die neue autoritäre Achse
Artikel von Vedran Dzihic in "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik"
From Belgrade to Tbilisi: How the EU Views Civil Protests
Trend Report 14 / January 2025 by Ljiljana Kolarski
Bro-Politics in Action: Trump and the “Personalization” of Foreign Policy
Trend Report 13 / January 2025 by Ádám Csobánci
Bridging divides: Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Strategic Autonomy
Trend Report 12 / January 2025 by Yuki Adachi
The Rise and Growing Coordination of The Global South
Trend Report 11 / January 2025 by Veronika Nechaeva
The End of an Era: The Decline of Neoliberalism and the Emerging Interregnum
Trend Report 10 / January 2025 by Johannes Späth
The European Union and Critical Raw Materials: Juggling Geopolitical and Economic Realities
Trend Report 9 / January 2025 by Dan Ziebarth
Navigating a World on Edge: Why Teaching War and Peace is Essential amid Rising Global Tensions in...
Trend Report 8 / January 2025 by Annika Scharnagl
Hybrid Threats and the Role of the Far Right
Trend Report 7 / January 2025 by Daniela Pisoiu
The Politics of Misinformation: Social Media, Polarization, and the Geopolitical Landscape in 2025
Trend Report 6 / January 2025 by Ceren Çetinkaya
The Politics of Misinformation: Social Media, Polarization, and the Geopolitical Landscape in 2025
Trend Report 6 / January 2025 by Ceren Çetinkaya
France – U.S. Relationship under Trump 2.0: No Big Drama or Turbo-Charged Confrontation?
Trend Report 5 / January 2025 by Loïc Simonet
Chinese Foreign Policy in 2025: Absorbing Blows & Profiting from Others’ Mistakes
Trend Report 4 / January 2025 by Thomas Eder
The End of Françafrique: A Second Decolonisation Wave in Africa
Trend Report 3 / January 2025 by Angela Meyer
A Possible Ceasefire in Ukraine in 2025: Is the OSCE on Board?
Trend Report 2 / January 2025 by Loïc Simonet
NATO in 2025 and Beyond: Success and Peril Go Hand in Hand
Trend Report 1 / January 2025 by Emiliano Alessandri
Kosovo und Serbien im gefährlichen Dauerclinch – Die Rolle der informellen Strukturen
Policy Analysis 2 / 2025 von Vedran Dzihic
The European Union and the Sahel: the day after
Policy Analysis 1 / 2025 by Angela Meyer, Loïc Simonet & Johannes Späth
Begrenzte Politik: Der Geopolitik Migrationsnexus der EU
Working Paper 122 / Dezember 2024 von Cengiz Günay, Sophie Reichelt und Vedran Dzihic
Preparing for a rainy day: What can EU member states learn from Finland’s approach to resilience?
Policy Analysis 5 / 2024 by Aku-M. Kähkönen and Robin Forsberg
Hate Crime and Extremism in Austria on the Background of the Middle Eastern Conflict
Policy Brief November 2024 by Daniela Pisoiu
How the West loses public opinion in Europe’s Neighborhood
Working Paper / November 2024 by Vedran Dzihic, Cengiz Günay, Valentina Gruarin, Domonkos...
Effects of the 7/10 attack on the international normative order
Policy Brief August 2024 by Anya McCrimmon, Daniela Pisoiu und Laura Vendruscolo
Why Europe matters! REFLECTIONS – Magazine of the oiip
REFLECTIONS Magazine of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs – oiip No....
Politologe Vedran Džihić erzählt in "Ankommen" von Flucht und Neubeginn
Vorabdruck der Publikation "Ankommen" von Vedran Dzihic in Der Standard
The UN Summit of the Future (September 2024): Which opportunities for the OSCE?
Working Paper / July 2024 by Loïc Simonet
Die bosnische Diaspora in Österreich zwischen politischer Apathie im Herkunftsland und neuen Formen...
Policy Brief Juni 2024 von Vedran Dzihic
The New Geopolitical Formation in the Wider Horn of Africa: Consequences for Europe
Policy Analysis 3 / 2024 by Jan Pospisil
Dollar Democracy: Uncovering the risks of monetary meddling in U.S. foreign policy
Policy Brief May 2024
Die türkische Diaspora in Österreich – Was erklärt den großen Rückhalt Präsident Erdoğans?
Policy Brief Mai 2024 von Cengiz Günay, Sophie Reichelt, Till Menke
Die Geopolitischen Prioritäten der USA im Kontext der Präsidentschaftswahl
Arbeitspapier April 2024 / von Thomas Eder und Johannes Späth
Freerider or Strategic Balancer? Austria vis-à-vis NATO and Russia. US – perspective on...
Policy Analysis 2 / 2024 by Jason C. Moyer & Patrick Kornegay, Jr.
Europa neu gedacht: Wie ein aktives Österreich zu einem starken Europa beitragen kann
Buchbeiträge von Cengiz Günay und Judith Kohlenberger in: Europa neu gedacht, Czernin...
Erlebtes Europa
Beitrag von Vedran Dzihic im neuen Buch von Helmut Brandstätter
Die Rolle Chinas auf multilateraler Ebene – was verändert sich durch Chinas neue...
Arbeitspapier 118 / Jänner 2024 von Thomas Eder
Survival strategies in the Middle East: Foreign policy in the service of regime security. The cases...
Policy Analysis 1 / 2024 by Johannes Späth, Carsten Minh Vo & Cengiz Günay
Navigating Extremism: Safeguarding Europe’s Religious Sites amidst Shifting Political...
Trend Report 10 / January 2024 by Annika Scharnagl & Daniela Pisoiu
The Impact of Migration on International Relations: Power Relations, Security, and Migration...
Research Note created jointly between the University of Continuing Education Krems (UWK)...
New global (dis)order – about a world that frightens us
Trend Report 9 / February 2024 by Vedran Dzihic
The Gaza War – Affective Polarization and the Future of Democracy
Trend Report 8 / January 2024 by Cengiz Günay
Happy Election Year!
Trend Report 7 / January 2024 by Loïc Simonet
From “as long as it takes” to “as long as we can”: will the West abandon Ukraine?
Trend Report 6 / January 2024 by Loïc Simonet
Japan’s Expanding Diplomatic and Military Horizons
Trend Report 5 / January 2024 by Erik Isaksson
The OSCE in Zeitenwende: How to keep the Organization on the radar screen?
Trend Report 4 / January 2024 by Loïc Simonet
Chinese foreign policy in 2024: crisis management and global governance
Trend Report 3 / January 2024 by Thomas Eder
Russia 2024: Making or Breaking the System
Trendreport / January 2024 by Laetitia Spetschinsky
A „new Washington consensus”
Trend Report 1 / January 2024 by Johannes Späth
The technical limits of the EU. Europe’s defense economy as a driving force for strategic...
Working Paper 117 / December 2023 by Loïc Simonet
Human Rights in a multi-aligned world: how to counter challenging narratives and restore...
30 years after the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights: Study by Loïc Simonet...
The future of the transatlantic partnership: US perceptions and debates
Policy Analysis 10 / 2023 by Sophia Winograd, Valentina Gruarin, Cengiz Günay and Vedran...
BiEPAG Reacts: EC Country Report 2023 on Bosnia and Herzegovina
Blog by Vedran Dzihic
In the Israel-Hamas war, Russia takes the ridge road
Policy Analysis 9 / 2023 Laetitia Spetschinsky
Selected Areas of Terrorism Threats with Relevance for Austria and the EU
Policy Analysis 8 / 2023 by Annika Scharnagl & Daniela Pisoiu
Russland und China – wie beeinflusst der Krieg in der Ukraine die Beziehungen? Was sind die...
Kurzanalyse 7 /2023 von Thomas Eder
Trapped in NATO antechamber, Kyiv eyes ‘military Marshall plan’
Article by Loïc Simonet in "The Conversation"
Das Gegenteil eines Durchbruchs: Analyse und Kritik der wichtigsten Aspekte des Ratsbeschlusses zur...
Kurzanalyse 6 / 2023 von Judith Kohlenberger, Lena Laube & Daniele Saracino