International Relations, International Security, Security Studies, Strategic Studies, Foreign Policy, National Security, Defense Policy, Diplomacy, Statecraft, Grand Strategy, Geopolitics, International Organizations, International Institutions, Global Governance, International Law, Regional Security, Alliance Politics, Deterrence, Military Strategy, Military Affairs, Intelligence, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, Nonproliferation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Cybersecurity, Emerging Technologies and Security, Artificial Intelligence and Security, Political Violence, Civil Conflict, Interstate Conflict, War and Peace, Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Democracy and Governance, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Human Security. As a newly established initiative at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the program encourages innovative scholarship on topics such as diplomacy, interstate conflict, nuclear security, international institutions, political violence, emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, and other pressing challenges in international security, while advancing theoretical, historical, and empirical approaches to the study of world politics.