Natolin Launches New Study Track: European Security and Strategy

 

In response to the growing need in Europe for expertise in the multidimensional facets of security, the College of Europe in Natolin is proud to announce the new study track within the Advanced MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies: European Security and Strategy starting from 2026/2027. 

The new study track deploys Natolin’s expertise to equip its students with knowledge necessary to address some of the most pressing contemporary global challenges. The College of Europe in Natolin has three decades of expertise in EU’s external relations with a special focus on the EU’s neighbourhoods. Natolin’s unique location at the EU’s external eastern border and in NATO’s North-Eastern flank offers a unique perspective on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe.

Key features:

  • Interdisciplinary understanding of Europe’s functioning 

  • High-level analysis of security, defence, crisis management, and power dynamics

  • Study of strategic reasoning and decision-making

I SEMESTER — foundations in security & strategy

  • Security and military challenges in Europe
  • Geo-economics and geopolitical risk analysis
  • Concepts of strategy
  • EU Foreign policy-making in times of conflicts

ii SEMESTER— specialisation: 

  • Security and conflict management
  • EU internal security
  • NATO and European defence policy
  • Defence economics
  • Hybrid warfare
  • Civil protection and crisis management
  • Geopolitcs of disinformation

At Natolin, students benefit as well from a unique combination of their security studies with the European Regional Studies programme, which ensures proper appreciation of political, economic, social, cultural, and historical dynamics within selected regions, concretely the Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe.

Learn more here and apply by 14 January 2026!