International Security Programme

This project aims to improve understanding on how gender and other intersecting identities affect and are affected by cyber threats, and how improved governance can help mitigate harmful gendered impacts.

The dialogue aims to enhance mutual understanding and reduce misperceptions, with the ultimate aim of identifying potential, future areas of cooperation on cyber issues.

This project aims to provide civil society with the knowledge to contribute to cybercrime policies.

The Digital Access Programme (DAP) is an initiative to facilitate safe and secure internet access for excluded populations in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia.

This project explores opportunities for increased cooperation via the transatlantic ‘tech triangle’ of the European Union, United Kingdom and United States.

This programme of work addresses the conundrum of nuclear weapons as a wicked problem in a complex adaptive system.

The aim of this project is to provide a space to explore creative/disruptive ideas on perspectives concerning deterrence, to encourage ‘responsible disruption’ in the nuclear field.

With the number of violent conflicts increasing, there is a worldwide need to respond more effectively.

This project explores the use of encryption as a crucial tool for securing infrastructure, communications and information to support our digital society.

This project seeks to understand the dynamics that will determine support for a principle-based approach to engagement by humanitarian actors with non-state armed groups.

This project aims to assess the vulnerabilities of the international civil nuclear sector in regards to cyber security and to identify potential measures to enhance cyber security in the wider nuclear security field.

In recent years there has been increased recognition of the differences in standards of biomaterial security in different areas of the world.

This project aims to improve understanding of, and responses to, the phenomenon of lone actor terrorists in Europe.

This project is designed to inform the national defence and security debate and assess how policy could be made more effective.

A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East addresses one of the most important factors in establishing stability and security in the region.

The objective of the project is to understand Alliance obligations within the framework of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament treaties.

This project aims to improve resilience in NATO’s nuclear weapons systems against cyber threats.

This project brings together experts on the use of armed drones, with the aim of sharing knowledge and increasing understanding on these issues.

The aim of the project is to ascertain the required capacity building activities that would strengthen urban resilience to biological threats in key African cities.

This seminar series covered contemporary issues in internet governance.

A two-year initiative to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future of internet governance.

Despite substantial interest in the issues of cyber security and space security, too little attention has been paid to the combination of the two.

This project aimed to explore alternative options to the drug and organized crime policy challenge and provide a distinctive contribution to the debate.

Our projects on nuclear security issues focus on assessing the institutional strength of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and global commitment to disarmament.

This project focuses on the political and strategic aspects of the bilateral relationship between Britain and France.

The Forum was established to analyse developments in national and European security and defence policies and to promote a better understanding of Europe’s wider strategic relationship with the United States.

This project aims to create shared language and references on international cyber governance and help inform state policies on cyber norms.

Through a series of simulation exercises held in the region, this project aims to build cyber resilience by strengthening coordination and cooperation against cybercrime, at both the national and regional levels in the ASEAN countries.

A series of cyber research projects aimed at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

This project provides a pan-Commonwealth platform with the aim of taking the Commonwealth Cyber Declaration forward by means of a holistic, inclusive and representative approach.

Despite the introduction of massive technological and commercial changes in the past 20 years, and the emergence of a handful of tech giants, the internet’s architecture continued to retain its unique qualities.

This project is grounded in the recognition that risks emanating from the development of cyberspace present challenges to a wide variety of stakeholders, in particular non-state actors, such as the private sector and technology users.

This project aims to increase cyber capacity and build cooperation on cybersecurity between key Indian and British stakeholders from the private sector, academia and government.

Since 2015, the International Security programme has been delivering a cyber-practitioners’ course aimed at government officials and policy professionals whose role requires competence related to key issues of international cyber policy.

Our interactive, immersive simulation exercises test your executive-level decision-making and communication strategies during a cyber crisis.