Our Research Programmes

We analyse the development and application of cyber policy and strategy, cyber as a tool of statecraft and cyberspace as an arena for geopolitical competition.

We focus on understanding and assessing cyber threats from state and non-state actors and evaluate responses and risk management approaches to mitigate them.

We examine the impact of disruptive technologies on national security, economic growth and the role of technology in an era of geopolitical competition.

This research programme focuses on the national, geopolitical and environmental security risks of fossil fuel reliance and solutions for securing clean energy globally.

This theme focuses on the multifaceted relationship between climate change, environmental and human security, activism, and organised crime.

We seek to understand the role that civil nuclear power plays as an instrument of geopolitics, and how to mitigate potential security and safety risks of its spread.

This programme focuses on the development and implementation of effective anti-financial crime policies and regulation both in the UK and internationally.

This programme focuses on sanctions, economic security, and the financial dimension of state threats.

Our work on organised crime and corruption explores the dynamics of illicit markets and the drivers and enablers that sustain them in order to inform effective policy responses.

The European Security in Transformation Programme analyses perennial and emerging security challenges for the wider Euro-Atlantic region within the context of the UK’s national security.

This research programme analyses Russia’s strategic thinking, political change and its global and regional ambitions.

This programme covers security in the region that is the global centre of gravity for economic growth, technological development, and geopolitical competition: the Indo-Pacific.

A dialogue between the US and its European allies on how to refresh the transatlantic security relationship in response to a shifting international environment.

We examine the fast-evolving security and defence agenda in Latin America and consider the most effective ways to counter the leading threats across the region.

This programme covers the evolving regional order of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), examining dynamics in and between the region’s countries as well as the region’s place in a changing world.