Master of Science [M.S] [Cyber Security, Strategy and Risk Management] From Australian National University

The Master of Global Securities and Strategy examines the nature and interconnectivity of global and regional security challenges. Whilst we can conceive of the components of these challenges separately – climate, health, poverty, nuclear proliferation, disruptive technologies, to name just a few – in reality these challenges confront us simultaneously and urgently. They shape, reinforce, and catalyse each other in ways that resist simple classification or understanding. These challenges, and the forces that animate them, are at their most pronounced in Asia and the Pacific, where precarity, crisis, and innovation coexist in ways that set the global agenda. 

Responding to the disconnectedness of these challenges requires the ability to think, see, and work across disciplinary boundaries, to view patterns of security and insecurity from multiple perspectives - state, human, environmental, societal, economic, and cultural - and to consider indigenous knowledges and practices about our world. Developing strategies that respond to the challenges we face requires an awareness that the experiences of security and insecurity, for states, societies or individuals, varies as we consider the effects of culture, history, gender, race and ethnicity, and wealth.