This section includes all necessary resources for successful completion of the ISI programme.

On this page, you will find a list of core lectures, including a synopsis for each, required readings and resources.

Building on CSi’s strong connections with leading practitioners and academic researchers in the fields of security and intelligence, this advanced course brings together experts and professionals to examine critical global security challenges and their impact on governments, citizens, and businesses.

With a special focus on the role of intelligence in shaping international relations, security and defence policies, ISI-Pro offers invaluable insights into how navigate today’s complex security landscape.

• Thematically organised into masterclasses, presentations and break-out sessions, the programme delves into the most urgent security crises around the world as well as enduring challenges to world order and the fundamental security dilemmas they pose.
• These sessions will include examination of, but not be limited to intelligence success and failure, information and cyber warfare, counterterrorism strategies, regional crises, security architectures and the geopolitical implications of emerging technologies, in particular AI and quantum computing.
• The role of intelligence in statecraft and the ‘missing dimension’ of intelligence in international affairs will also be explored. Regional actors, including Russia and China, in the context of great power competition, will be examined, as will the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine. Presentations on ethics, leadership, strategy, the role of private sector business intelligence, as well as perennial security threats such as terrorism, sabotage, counterintelligence, and insider threats will also be explored.
• Former intelligence officials, policymakers, and leading academics will bring real-world insights and cutting-edge research to the classroom.