The study of Intelligence and Security Studies is of prime strategic importance because it is not just a concept to be studied and analysed; it is a subject or problem to be managed by states or entities on a regular basis to survive in the transformed international politics and competitive geostrategic environment of the 21st century. This course is particularly crafted for scholars/practitioners/policymakers/politicians/journalists/business leaders and for the young individuals aspiring to venture into various professions/government departments/NGOs/international organizations; or other institutions – dealing with the specialized dimensions of national security activities or else analysing other national/international security threat matrix – with a view to holistically and critically understand/explore a series of traditional and non-traditional security subjects/problems that have emerged with the broadening of security studies menu.
This course examines the most contemporary topics in the field. It essentially studies: states security architecture; national/international institutions, multilateral issues; deterrence; compellence; foreign policy/coercive diplomacy; economic/industrial/trade-commerce and other aspects of strategic, cyber/defence/warfare (kinetic and non-kinetic), emerging technologies of the digital-age with innovative thinking and with deployment of diverse theoretical approaches to security; and information management plus sources of information, communication networks and the inherent insecurity of information infrastructure. Furthermore, states and analysts/experts’ ability to deal with varied tasks originating from various ideas, threats – internal and external related to cyber war, national/transnational crime, espionage with fusion of additional sources of information/AI and the risks they pose to states informational structures, or to private, nongovernmental entities, corporations, groups in parallel with impact on territorial, institutional and the governing regimes.
