Global Trends, Security and Resources
HCSS helps governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to understand the fast-changing environment and seeks to anticipate the challenges of the future with practical policy solutions and advice.
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Drivers of Vulnerability Monitor
The Drivers of Vulnerability (DoV) Monitor is a 21st century tool to explore our 21st century security environment.
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Nuclear Timeline
The nuclear timeline is an easy and attractive tool that renders the dazzling history of nuclear developments comprehensible. In the run-up to the Nuclear Security Summit, the timeline traces the long legacy of nuclear security threats and policies.
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Emerging Economies
What risks and opportunities are presented by the growing economic, financial, and political momentum of emerging economies?
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Cyber Security
Cyberspace is both the playground and the battleground of the future, as the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) expands across the globe.
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Governance and International Organization
New regional organizations have emerged in recent years, competing with existing global institutions for attention and legitimacy.
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Global Power Shifts
The rise of Asia will shape the global political landscape in the 21st century and have profound implications for the way Europeans live and do business.
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Civil Security
In an increasingly connected world, security incidents may have spillover effects far beyond their local origin.
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Environment and Climate
Climate change is expected to dramatically alter the environment in certain parts of the world.
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Defense and International Security
We are now living through a period of global change matched in recent history only by the years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Shifts in relative power among larger countries are accelerated by a series of crises.
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National Security Strategy
National Security is at stake when one or more of a country’s vital interests are threatened.
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Demographics and Urbanization
Demographic developments and Urbanization impact societies, economies, politics, and the environment.
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Energy
How will the future energy landscape develop? And what will the implications for international relations be?
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Technology and Innovation
Innovation and technology play an increasingly significant role in economic growth and providing solutions for grand challenges.
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Terrorism, Piracy and Crime
Cross-border crime and international terrorism constitute a perceived as well as real challenge to our prosperity and well-being.
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Strategic Monitor
What are the big-picture trends and developments on the world stage? And what risks and opportunities lie ahead for different actors?
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Minerals and Metals
Minerals and metals are the basis of many industrial sectors worldwide.
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Health & Aging
Aging is a sign of our success, but it carries inherent challenges. Some sectors of our economies are set to benefit from demographic change.
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Sustainability and Resource Scarcity
To meet the needs of future generations, we need to adapt our ways of living and definitions of economic development.
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Beyond the Cold War of Words
Assessing Cyber Security
Future Contours of Agriculture and Food
The Value of Cooperation: Innovation in Dutch Security in Perspective
What the Official Websites Say on Soy and Palm Oil
Beyond the Welfare State
The Fission of Power: Flex and Flux in an Age of Fragmentation
A blessing in the skies? Challenges and opportunities in creating space for UAVs in the Netherlands
The Global Resource Nexus
Harvesting Golden Opportunities for the Dutch Agri-Food Business in China
Time to wake up
HSD Issue Brief no. 5: Disaster Resilience and Climate Change
DESIGNING FUTURE STABILISATION EFFORTS
What the official websites say
HSD Issue Brief no. 4: A Blessing in the skies: Unmanned Opportunities for Business and Security
Why are Pivot States so Pivotal? The Role of Pivot States in Regional and Global Security
The European Labor Market and Technology
LGBT Military Personnel: a Strategic Vision for Inclusion
Investeren in innovatie loont echt
HSD Issue Brief no. 3: how can cyber resilience strategies help cities deal with risks in a hyper-connected world
Balancing on the brink: Vulnerability of states in the Middle East and North Africa
Assessing Assertions of Assertiveness: The Chinese and Russian Cases
Strategic Monitor 2014: Four Strategic Challenges
HSD Issue Brief no. 2: Safe cities, hot cities: Balancing security, economic vitality and livability
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AIV rapport pleit voor delta plan Nederlandse Defensie en extra budget
In een nieuw verschenen AIV rapport wordt gepleit voor versterking van de Nederlandse Defensie. Vooral vanwege de huidige instabiliteit langs de grenzen van Europa is dit noodzakelijk.Contact details
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