According to conventional and traditional definitions, security studies pertain to the phenomenon of war: their matters of investigation are the threat, use and control of military force. Post-Cold-War calls for broadening and widening the conceptualisation of security responded to the need of unpacking security challenges and policies by shifting from security-as-an-object to security-as-a-process as well as encouraging expertise cross-fertilisation. Along similar veins, the research cluster "International Security" aims at crossing disciplinary and area boundaries and benefits from SIS' signature feature, that is, inter- and trans-disciplinarity as the key to understand contemporary complexities of conflict and cooperation patterns. Inspired by a research vocation, our cluster aims at feeding and in turn being fed by the teaching activities especially charactering two of Master's Degrees hosted by the SIS and particularly anchored to the study of security at the global, international and transnational level: that is, the Master's Degree in International Security Studies, and the International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies.

Cluster's Members