Publications

Over the years, HCSS has built up an extensive archive of reports, monitors, papers and other publications. We disseminate the results of our research as broadly as possible to benefit the public good. Use the advanced search functions below to browse through our research library, most of which is available as free PDF downloads.

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Strong in the 21st Century

30 Jul 2010
Our fascination with the future is only surpassed by the difficulty we experience in preparing for it. ‘’Strategy’’ is supposed to straddle these two important elements. It is about anticipating the future and defining some desired future state.
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Schaarste en noodzaak van regie en handelingsperspectief

25 Jun 2010
Schaarste van energiebronnen, grondstoffen, water en voedsel vormt een mogelijke beperking voor de ontwikkeling van de nationale economische groei en welvaart.
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De uitdaging waar Nederland voor staat

10 May 2010
Visie bij de start van het programma Strategy & Change
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Future Issue - Social Networking: the security shakedown of shared information

1 Feb 2010
In recent years, social networks have emerged as popular Web 2.0 applications. In the past year, social networking applications have demonstrated the ability to influence major events.
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The Future of CBRN

1 Jan 2010
HCSS mapped and analysed the debate on the potential future use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials in the security and safety domain in the next five to fifteen years.
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Navigating the CBRN landscape of 2010 and beyond: towards a new policy paradigm

1 Jan 2010
This report presents the nature and size of CBRN-threats and compares policy approaches.
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Scarcity of Minerals

1 Jan 2010
This report analyses whether minerals will be scarce in the future and what the security and strategic implications will be.
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The Hague Strategic Note: Venezuela and its Impact on Regional Stability

9 Nov 2009
One of the least recognized neighbours of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At little over 20 kilometres off the coast of Venezuela, Aruba and the Dutch Antillean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire lie a short boat-ride from the Venezuelan mainland. Its leader Hugo Chávez has been a source of concern among Western commentators for some time.
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Towards a Post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations

4 Nov 2009
We are now entering a “post-American world”. The Cold War is fading intohistory, and globalisation is increasingly redistributing power to the Southand the East.
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Venezuela and its impact on regional stability

1 Nov 2009
One of the least recognized neighbours of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
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For Effects-based Operations to Effect-based FOrce: On Causality, Complex Adaptive System, and the Biology of War

8 Oct 2009
The author addresses a recent force employment concept called effects-based operations.
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Future Issue: The Arctic

1 Oct 2009
HCSS reviewed over 250 documents and over 100 recent foresight studies pertainingto the future of the Arctic in the period 2025-2050.
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Future Issue: Economic Crises

1 Oct 2009
An analysis of security implications of economic crises finds that:
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Dutch Military Intervention Decision Making Revisited Getting A (Constitutional) Grip On 21st Century Wars.

1 Oct 2009
Definitions of national security and how it should be defended have changed radically over the past two decades. Interpretations have been stretched from a narrow conception of territorial defence of the borders of the homeland to encompass defence against instability far from these borders.
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Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism

18 Jul 2009
Dit rapport is een eerste verkenning naar de toepasbaarheid van de grondbeginselenvan militaire counterinsurgency doctrines (COIN-doctrines) op de totstandkoming vaneen nationale contraterrorisme doctrine (CTD).
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Threat Analysis Economic Crisis

15 Jun 2009
Eind 2008 hebben het Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies (HCSS) en het Instituut voor Veiligheids en Crisismanagement (COT) een dreigingsanalyse van de financiële crisis opgesteld.
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Water on the Tibetan Plateau: Ecological and Strategic Implications for the Region

5 Jun 2009
As the source of Asia’s major rivers, the Tibetan Plateau is of great strategic significance for China and the region. People from Vietnam to Pakistan depend for their livelihood and further development on the water of these rivers.
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Knowledge Investment Quote

1 Jun 2009
The Netherlands Ministry of Defence initiated an interdepartmental Future Policy Surveyin March 2008.
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Future Issue: Biometrics

1 Jun 2009
Biometrics, the science and technology of measuring and analysing biological data, has become a hot topic within the emerging technology foresight literature.
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Future Issue - Idiocracy and the Changing Distribution of Knowledge

1 Jun 2009
In a simple, yet intuitively appealing description, knowledge holds the key to the humancapacity to manipulate and exploit its environment, and plays an essential role in ensuring a state’s socio-political stability, economic prosperity and, above all, security.
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Can NATO's solidarity crisis be fixed: Results and Recommendations of the New Horizons Study

14 Apr 2009
NATO is at a crossroads, according to a recent debate hosted by the Security and DefenceAgenda (SDA). A study carried out by the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) went to the heart of this debate by consulting a wide variety of stakeholders includingEU and NATO officials, academics, experts, students, industry and nongovernmentalorganisations
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Closing the Loop

1 Apr 2009
How do defence-organisations (or organisations with comparable profiles) of other countries map out policy goals and how are policy goals related to activities and capabilities and the required financial means?
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Crisisbeheersingsoperaties in fragiele staten, de noodzaak van een samenhangende aanpak

20 Mar 2009
Dit advies volgt op de adviesaanvraag van de regering over de ‘Verenigbaarheid vanpolitieke, militaire en ontwikkelingsdoelen in crisisbeheersingsoperaties’ van13 juni 2008
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Metal Minerals Scarcity: A Call For Managed Austerity and the Elements of Hope

10 Mar 2009
If we keep following the ruling paradigm of sustained global economic growth, we will soon run out of cheap and plentiful metal minerals of most types
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