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Projects

Overview

Creator: FES / Florian Müller

Security Radar

Our flagship study on European security, based on representative polls across OSCE countries. Published in 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025, it examines attitudes towards security, conflict and cooperation. It will soon become the Global Radar.

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Creator: FES / Philipp Daun

Peace Matrix

Peace negotiations are not a single agreement, but a sequence of interconnected decisions. The interactive Peace Matrix shows how issues can be grouped, sequenced and negotiated by different actors to create pathways towards a peace settlement.

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Creator: FES / Flo Müller

Visualising Military Capabilities

Europe’s security landscape has changed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the need for stronger European defence. This initiative provides data and maps to inform debate on Europe’s military strength and security.

Creator: Freepik / edited FES

Security and Climate

The climate crisis is not only an environmental challenge—it also threatens stability, peace and security. Its far-reaching consequences are increasingly shaping foreign policy, with growing implications for international cooperation.

Creator: FES

Model OSCE

A cooperation project with the OSCE that brings young women and men from different backgrounds together to build confidence, strengthen dialogue and deepen their knowledge of OSCE principles, values and processes.

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Creator: FES

Perspectives 20-30

An initiative to provide a platform for young women and men to formulate and discuss with decision-makers a vision for how a safer future in the OSCE area could look by 2030 and beyond.

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Creator: Daniel Seex / FES

Fresh Look at Eastern European Trends

A FES-initiated network of young, open-minded security experts from across the OSCE space. Since 2015, FLEET has brought together diverse perspectives to discuss European security, cooperation and stability and seek common ground.

Creator: Daniel Seex / FES

Thinking Ahead: Russia Beyond 2024

What conditions will shape the run-up to the 2024 presidential election in Russia? What type of leader is likely to emerge—if, indeed, a leadership change takes place? These are the questions at the heart of the scenarios.

Creator: Daniel Seex / FES

Cooperative Security Initiative

The Cooperative Security Initiative is designed to generate ideas and shift momentum in favor of cooperative security and multilateralism through the OSCE in order to build a safer Europe.

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Creator: FES

Security and Media

Covering international affairs and security policy is challenging in times of crisis. We bring together journalists, experts, politicians and media audiences to strengthen analytical, diverse and informed reporting.

Creator: Daniel Seex / FES

Getting out from "In-Between"

A Track II initiative exploring pathways towards an inclusive regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia. It examines how states caught between competing powers can overcome geopolitical divides and shape a more stable regional order.

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Creator: Daniel Seex / FES

Foresight Ukraine

A Track II initiative that brought together experts from Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the US to develop long-term scenarios for Ukraine’s future. It explored possible political, security and geopolitical developments.