Year 2026-2027
Semester 2
- What is strategy? Theories, concepts and practices
- Seminar on Ciens methodology: what methods for the study of strategic issues? Archives, interviews, Osint.
- Strategic and nuclear issues in the Middle East
- Russia’s security and defense policy, a key challenge for European security
- Space and strategic competitions
- Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation – history, mechanisms and contemporary issues
Semester 1
- History of Nuclear Deterrence
- Why deterrence? Introduction to contemporary nuclear and strategic issues
- Cyber conflict: strategic issues and geopolitical realities (introduction and in-depth analysis)
- Theories and political sociology of international relations
- AI geopolitics: from digital and cognitive sovereignty to objects of war
Year 2025-2026
Semester 1
- Cyber conflict: strategic issues and geopolitical realities (introduction and in-depth analysis)
- Why deterrence? Introduction to contemporary nuclear and strategic issues
- History of Nuclear Deterrence
- Theories and political sociology of international relations
Year 2024-2025
Semester 2
- European nuclear trajectories II
- Cyber conflictuality: new conflicts in other theaters, or new theaters of the same conflicts
- Cyber conflictuality (advanced course)
- Outer Space and Strategic Competition
- What is strategy? Theories, concepts and practice
- Strategic and nuclear issues in the Middle East
- The digital state of war: a sociology of the strategic issues involved in digitizing public debate
Semester 1
- Theories and political sociology of international relations
- Why deterrence? Introduction to contemporary nuclear and strategic issues
- History of Nuclear Deterrence
Year 2023-2024
Semester 2
- Outer Space and Strategic Competition
- The risk of nuclear war in the 21st century. History and contemporary challenges of arms control and disarmament policies
- Introduction to Strategy
- PSL Week March 2024: Major contemporary nuclear and strategic issues
- European nuclear trajectories
- General Overview of Courses
- AI, information and democracy
- Cyber conflictuality: new conflicts in other theaters, or new theaters of the same conflicts
Semester 1
- Why nuclear deterrence? Introduction to strategic questions
- History of Nuclear Deterrence
- Theories and political sociology of international relations
- Culture, Art and War
News

Three sessions on “European nuclear trajectories”: Germany, France, Italy – May 7, May 14 and May 15.
6 May 2024
At a time when Donald Trump, candidate in the American presidential election, seems to be calling into question transatlantic solidarity with his European allies within

Seminar on misinformation in the age of Artificial Intelligence
17 April 2024
The rapid development of generative AI promises a revolution in our relationship to news information, the structuring of political debate and decision-making. How can we