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.

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Defence & Security, Transnational Phenomena

Bioterrorism, Infectious Disease and Globalisation

Angelica Faotto

Is Inequality and/or Health a Security Threat? We are witnessing an unprecedented “political revolution in…

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Are More Nuclear Weapons Better?

Angelica Faotto

Introduction Nuclear weapons have been at the centre of the international system and of diplomatic…

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In Defence of Private Warfare

Leon Donadoni

Why the U.S. Should Recur to Private Military Firms to Achieve its Foreign Policy Objectives…

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