Who we are

A multidisciplinary network for security studies

The Global Center for Security Studies (GC4SS) is a London-based research network founded in November 2017. It brings together experts, scholars, policy researchers and analysts from many countries and backgrounds to study security and its related issues at multiple levels.

Today’s security challenges are complex and interconnected. Understanding them requires sustained exchange among the people who study and manage them. GC4SS was created to build that exchange: a horizontal, issue-based epistemic community that develops new approaches, produces original information and offers policy insight on emerging security challenges.

Working with focused networks across a wide range of security topics, GC4SS fosters a multidisciplinary and multisectoral environment in which academic research and professional practice inform each other.