Defence & Security

Charting a course towards a safer world.   

The Academy's Defence & Security section focuses on the theory and practice of international security studies. Undergraduate and postgraduate scholars from top universities all around the world share their best academic projects on a plethora of security-related thematic concentrations. Among these include, just to mention a few, the relationship between security discourse and practice, European defense, WMD proliferation, the military-industrial complex, NATO, cybersecurity, critical security studies and human security.

Defence & Security, Transnational Phenomena

Angelica Faotto

Is Inequality and/or Health a Security Threat? We are witnessing an unprecedented “political revolution in the area of health” (Fidler 2005, p.179). No impregnable wall exists between a world that…

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Academy, Defence & Security, Transnational Phenomena

Angelica Faotto

Introduction Nuclear weapons have been at the centre of the international system and of diplomatic and policy discourses for more than sixty years, and they have become ever more prominent…

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Academy, Defence & Security

Leon Donadoni

Assessing the Effectiveness of UAVs in the Information Revolution in Military Affairs Introduction In the last decade and a half, the rise to prominence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also…

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Dr Ben Wellings, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at @MonashUniversity, addresses the inevit… https://t.co/a8oQ15RskD

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"While many countries continue to grapple with balancing #economic and #environmental concerns..the issue of strand… https://t.co/343jKbNfmP

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Would #BRICS members be willing to add T to BRICS?” Arslan Ayan analyzes #Turkey’s ever-increasing aspiration to be… https://t.co/tAH7d7LsmW

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