Defence Studies

This programme deals with complex issues of national and international security and defence. One of the broad definitions of defence science states that defence science is the science of threat phenomena and of the ways to counter those threats. So, defence science is concerned with the study of armed conflicts and wars, natural and other disasters (fires, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, nuclear accidents, etc.), cyber and ecological threats, terrorism, certain forms of crime, etc. Defence science is concerned with the concepts and practices of dealing with the aforementioned threats and consequences (which include, in particular, armed forces, protection and rescue operations, counterterrorism operations, etc.) and the dilemmas involved (e.g., civil-military relations, etc.). An important feature of defence science is its interdisciplinarity - it connects with many sciences and transfers their findings to the field of security and defense.

The Defence Science programme trains experts for the entire national defence and security system (the administrative part of the Ministry of Defence, the Slovenian Army, the Intelligence and Security Service of the Ministry of Defence, the Administration for Protection and Rescue, the entire subsystem of protection against natural and other disasters at the national and local level, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency, tand the Office for the Protection of Secret Information) for work in international security organizations (NATO and OSCE) and European Union institutions, for work in media houses (especially for national content and international security and defence), and for work in business (in the defence industry, in the field of critical infrastructure, etc.). Due to their broad social science knowledge and a wide range of competences, defence scientists are also deployable in other organisations.