The research unit is conducting research in geopolitics and international relations.

Research interests further include:

• Security and Defence Policies.
• Theories of international relations.
• Political geography.
• International organizations for security and defence, but also development topics, operations and missions abroad, integrated approaches (UN, NATO, OSCE, AU, Arab League).
• Geopolitical analysis of conflicts and areas where political frictions happened or will probably happen.
• Negotiations before, during and after territorial or/and political disputes which could derive in open conflict or insurgency.
• Contemporary security issues; terrorism, water scarcity, demography, migration, climate change, transnational crimes and all kind of international trafficking (human, weapon, drug etc).
• Grand strategy, analysis of strategists’writings, counter-insurgency, cyber threat, conventional and unconventional warfare, nuclear deterrence, intelligence gathering, hybrid warfare.
• Military capacities development.
• International relations and geopolitics of the following regions or counties: Central Africa, Russian Federation, Balkans, North Africa, Sahel, Middle-East, Horn of Africa, South Africa, AFPAK, Caucasus, People Republic of China, India, Brazil.