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Dr Philip Jan Schäfer replaces Dr Enrico Fels as Managing Director at CASSIS on an interim basis¹

We are pleased to announce that Dr Philip Jan Schäfer is standing in for Dr Enrico Fels at the CASSIS office, who is on parental leave.

Second cohort of the Master's program “Strategy and International Security” starts at the University of Bonn²

With the start of the winter semester 2024/25, we also welcomed the second cohort of the Master's degree programme “Strategy and International Security” at the University of Bonn. Numerous guests from politics and academia were invited to the opening ceremony on October 10.

CASSIS Fellow PD Dr. Antje Nötzold in an SWR interview on armament and raw materials in space³

CASSIS Fellow PD Dr. Antje Nötzold in an SWR interview on space security and armament in space

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Review of the Summer School on "Artificial Intelligence, Social Machines, and the Future of Democratic Societies"⁴

From September 16 to 20, the Summer School "Artificial Intelligence, Social Machines, and the Future of Democratic Societies" took place in Bonn, led by Professors Caja Thimm and Maximilian Mayer from the University of Bonn. The event was supported by RWTH Aachen and the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Individuals, Institutions, and Societies" and was part of the joint research initiative of the University of Bonn and RWTH Aachen, "Autonomy and autonomous systems." It served as a platform for discussions on the impact of artificial intelligence on democratic societies.

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Routledge Handbook on Global China⁵

This innovative handbook on China, which will be available on Routledge from October 2024, offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing nature of global China and calls for a reassessment of existing theories of global and regional dynamics. Through theoretical innovation, methodological reflection and analytical transformation, it opens up new avenues for critical engagement with China's global interactions.

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Review of the Summer School on ‘The Geography of Hunger in a Multi-Crisis World’ in August⁶

We congratulate the CASSIS Fellows Dr. Rogelio Madrueño and Prof. Dr. Sergio Tezanos for the successful completion of the summer school on ‘The Geography of Hunger in a Multi-Crisis World’, which took place in Santander in collaboration with the University of Cantabria, the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES) and with the support of the BBVA Foundation and AECID.

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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie takes up visiting professorship at the University of St Andrews⁷

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie has taken up a visiting professorship as Joint Research Professor at the School of International Relations at the renowned University of St Andrews in Scotland on August 1, 2024. The CASSIS team and the Henry Kissinger Professorship warmly congratulate Mr. Schlie on this success!

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Congratulations to Dr. Enrico Fels for a third-party funding success!⁸

We are delighted to announce that the Managing Director of CASSIS and space expert Dr. Enrico Fels has successfully acquired funding from the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the study on “Europe's Technological Sovereignty in Space”, which will begin in August 2024. Congratulations to him and the colleagues involved!

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