MA/MS in Crisis and Security Management: Intelligence and National Security

The track introduces intelligence and security services within their political, societal and bureaucratic contexts, covering their modus operandi, their interaction with the wider world, and the challenges they face. Study of intelligence work across history, theory and practice in the 21st century traces how intelligence work has evolved to meet new security challenges, building methods, techniques and critical-thinking skills for weighing hypotheses, detecting patterns and drawing logical conclusions. The track also examines how intelligence services cooperate with other agencies and institutions, and how they should be governed and held accountable in democratic societies.