Dossiers

Energy Policy

Due to the interdependencies in the energy markets, the international dimension of energy policy is becoming increasingly important. Instead of mere security of supply, the focus is shifting to the question of an ecologically, economically and socially compatible energy supply.

Dossier, last update: July 2025

United Nations and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development aims to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The United Nations committed itself to this guiding principle in the early 1990s. How has global sustainability policy developed since then?

Dossier, last update: July 2025

The United States and Transatlantic Relations

Following his re-election in 2024, US President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement initiate a change of course in domestic and foreign policy, weakening US institutions while calling international order and partnerships into question. This dossier provides an overview of the new circumstances in foreign and security policy, domestic policy and society, and economy and trade.

Dossier, last update: July 2025

Climate Policy and Politics

It is considered one of the greatest threats of the 21st century: climate change. How can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions? And how can we deal with the consequences? This dossier provides an overview of the many challenges facing climate policy at European and international level.

Dossier, last update: July 2025

Russia's war against Ukraine and its consequences

Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine - with repercussions on a global scale. A new dossier bundles publications and media contributions on the war and its consequences.

Dossier, last update: April 2025

Sustainability and Energy

The dossier deals with developments in the field of sustainability and energy. It displays publications and other products by SWP researchers that track international and European policy processes, and discuss recommendations for action.

Dossier, last update: February 2025

Cybersecurity and Digital Policy: The Role of the Digital in International Politics

Digital Foreign Policy, Cyber-Security, International Law & Human Rights, Regional Perspectives. The dossier seeks to offer orientation in this complex field and offers compilations of relevant publications by SWP authors in the respective fields.

Dossier, last update: February 2025

Forced Displacement and Migration

The dossier introduces the topics of International Migration Trends; Forced Displacement, Migration and Development; International Cooperation; European Migration and Refugee Policy; and National Migration and Refugee Policy, and pools publications by SWP authors.

Dossier, last update: October 2024

European elections 2024 and the EU's next strategic agenda

From 6 to 9 June 2024, the citizens of the European Union will elect a new parliament. This dossier looks at how this will affect EU institutions, their political priorities and the European party landscape.

Dossier, last update: June 2024

North Korea: A Web of Conflicts

The dossier addresses the set of problems subsumed under the term “North Korea conflict”. It offers select SWP publications as well as further information which analyses the issue from different substantive and structural perspectives.

Dossier, last update: March 2023