About
The Geneva Center for Geopolitics and Security is an independent institution focused on research, analysis and dialogue across geopolitical and security questions.
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Research
GCGS structures its research around four related fields. Each can stand alone, while the strongest analysis often sits at their intersection.
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GCGS draws on its research base and international expert network to provide professional consulting services for government bodies, international organizations, corporate clients and nongovernmental organizations. Every service follows the Center’s principles of independence and neutrality.
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The Geneva Center for Geopolitics and Security (GCGS) is an independent, nonprofit research institution headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides high-quality, independent and nonpartisan strategic analysis and policy recommendations for government decision-makers, international organizations, businesses and the public.
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Strategy, power, alignment and the changing competitive relationships among major powers.
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The institutions, arrangements and strategic choices shaping security across Europe.
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Security dynamics, strategic competition and regional order across the Indo-Pacific.
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Non-proliferation, arms control, strategic stability and the management of nuclear risk.
Independent, nonprofit, high-level policy consulting think tank
The Geneva Center for Geopolitics and Security (GCGS) is an independent, nonprofit research institution headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides high-quality, independent and nonpartisan strategic analysis and policy recommendations for government decision-makers, international organizations, businesses and the public.
Independent, nonprofit, high-level policy consulting think tank
Geneva, Switzerland
Established in 2013
Formally registered in 2014
Institutional approach
We bring research discipline and a Geneva perspective to questions that cross borders, institutions and policy fields. Conclusions should show what is known, what is inferred and what remains uncertain.
Our research areas are designed to connect power, security, regional context and future uncertainty without reducing complex developments to a single signal.
Explore research →Decision-grade exposure mapping for operations, assets and supply chains. The work identifies where political or security change can interrupt business, defines observable warning indicators and links each threshold to a practical mitigation option.
Structured policy choice for public institutions and international organizations. Each engagement compares options, maps stakeholders and implementation dependencies, and makes trade-offs explicit before a recommendation is made.
Facilitated exercises that test how a team decides under pressure. Participants receive timed scenario injects, record choices and assumptions, and leave with an evidence-based after-action plan rather than a generic workshop summary.
Commissioned research for questions that do not fit a standard product. The scope fixes the question, evidence plan and review method at the outset, then delivers a transparent analytical record that can withstand internal challenge.
Events & forums
GCGS convenes formats designed for focused exchange, comparative analysis and practical engagement across institutional and regional perspectives.
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