Research Projects

At the heart of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) research activities are key questions of contemporary security and strategy. We are particularly interested in the changing landscape of threats that states and their societies face, the methodologies, concepts, and tools used to gain knowledge about these threats and the way states and other actors organise themselves to confront these threats.

Theoretically informed, but empirically-grounded engagement with threat perceptions, but also actual methodologies, strategies and policies used to manage the threats help us to study the relationship between conceptual shifts in security-thinking and the resulting modes of security governance. By asking for causes and implications of these changes for the state and society, we tackle the key issues of authority and legitimacy in security affairs, and how the relationship between politics and security is re-arranged.