EL1 National Security Development Program: Framing the Future

This interactive and practical nine-day program will deepen participants’ understanding of the national security community and the range of strategic challenges it faces - now and into the future.

Participants will gain insight into the issues and forces of change affecting the strategic environment; build lasting professional networks; and gain exposure to a diversity of views and critical thinking on how Australia’s national security future might best be framed.

Introduction to National Security: Critical Conversations

This engaging three-day program introduces participants to the central issues, threats, challenges and opportunities that underpin Australia’s national security environment.

Participants will improve their understanding of Australia’s national security environment; hear from a range of thought leaders and experts; build a network; and enhance their ability to conduct critical conversations.

EL2 National Security Development Program: Navigating Uncertainty

This stimulating three-week program provides participants with in-depth exposure to the full range of issues and challenges facing Australia’s national security community, with a focus on strategic thinking, critical analysis, policy-making, partnership-building and adaptive leadership principles.

Introduction to National Security: Critical Conversations

This engaging three-day program introduces participants to the central issues, threats, challenges and opportunities that underpin Australia’s national security environment. Participants will improve their understanding of Australia’s national security environment; hear from a range of thought leaders and experts; build a network; and enhance their ability to conduct critical conversations.

Breakfast Series | The Indo-Pacific — Strategic Challenges and Opportunities: COVID, and After

Join us for this exciting breakfast series on the Indo-Pacific.

Book Launch: Contest for the Indo-Pacific

Professor Rory Medcalf will detail the contest for the Indo-Pacific and why maps matter

National Security College graduate studies information evening

There has never been a more important time to study national security.

Australia and Africa: a new friend from the South?

Does Australia ‘punch below its weight’ in Africa?

The Xinjiang emergency: exploring the context, evidence and implications

Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained without trial

The importance of national security and careers in national security policy

ANU National Security College academics will share their insights