Global Security

This research thematic engages critically with both traditional and non-traditional security concerns, recognising the need to think beyond territorial and state-based mechanisms and interventions.

Global Security

Security is the foundational cornerstone of international relations scholarship. This research thematic engages traditional security concerns which arise from the continuing prominence of ‘the game of nations’. However, research activities also reflect changes in the threat environment, particularly the impact of globalisation, environmental changes and new technologies in creating new risks, threats, and vulnerabilities for states and individuals. Many of these non-traditional security concerns are transboundary by nature, problematising territorial, state-based regulation, and generating demands for new scales of governance. 

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Thematic Director

Inken von Borzyskowski is Associate Professor in Global Policy & International Relations at the UCL Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on the domestic politics of international relations with an emphasis on international organizations and their effect on domestic conflict and elections. 

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