A leading academic institution in the heart of London, we are focused on the past, present, and future of statecraft, national security, and international order.
Who We Are
The Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS) brings greater depth and expertise to the making of national security policy today, through research-led professional development and direct engagement with policymakers.
Based within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, CSNS was founded in 2025 following the merger of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and the Centre for Grand Strategy.
What We Do
The Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS) is devoted to a new way of thinking about international affairs and national security, with an emphasis on integrated approaches and long-term strategic thinking.
The Centre is committed to working with policymakers on pressing issues of real-world significance. It uses historical and other innovative approaches to better understand the immense challenges of our current age – on issues from terrorism and extremism to great power competition and the rapid pace of technological change.
Pause the Recording: Lessons Learned from the XCEPT Interviews in South Sudan
Anna Sebit describes her experience conducting interviews on behalf of the XCEPT programme in South Sudan. She describes the reality…
Tangle of Trauma Webinar Recording
Recording of the XCEPT team's webinar 'The Tangle of Trauma: How Moral Injury Can Delay Peace in Conflict-Affected States' available…
AUKUS Renewed: Confronting Resilience Failures and Reframing the Narrative
By Sophia Gaston Introduction: There are many reasons why it can be challenging for foreign policy doctrines, projects or narratives…
Q&A with Dr Nafees Hamid
An interview with Dr Nafees Hamid, XCEPT research programme, King's College London
More Than a Drink: How Does Alcohol Shape Violence in South Sudan?
As part of the XCEPT programme research in South Sudan, we conducted surveys and interviews with community members in Kapoeta…
‘Tree of Justice’ Protest: How Vietnamese Youth are Mobilising Online to Hold the Powerful to Account
A fatal car crash and a censored rap album, seemingly unrelated and a year apart, have sparked what could be…
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Violent Extremism: A Scoping Review of the Literature
This scoping review of the literature examines the link between adverse childhood experiences and violent extremism across 23 studies covering…
Six Years On, the Beirut Port Explosion is Still Not Over
Impunity, collective trauma and the unfinished pursuit of justice in Lebanon: six years on from the Beirut port blast.
Reconceptualising Makarenko’s Continuum in the Digital Age: The Case of Hezbollah
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Neither Terrorist nor Criminal: How Hybrid Actors Fall Through Platform Moderators
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Blurred Lines: The Child Safety Gap in the Crime-Terror Nexus
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
From Kyiv to Culiacán: How Mexican Cartels Are Adapting Drone Warfare Lessons from Ukraine
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Beyond the Ban Hammer: Building Resilience Against Youth Exploitation in Gaming Spaces
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Gaming and Youth (GYWG). GIFCT...
The Afterlife of the Tacloban Shooting: Nihilistic Violent Extremism in the Philippines
On June 22, 2026, two students aged 14 and 15, identified by their aliases “Nash”...
From Kashmir to Reels: The Localisation of Jihadist Propaganda in Indian Digital Spaces
Jihadist networks are targeting India by shifting from predominantly Kashmir-centric, Urdu-language long-form content toward Hindi...
“Create, Share, and Support”: How Pro-Islamic State (Is) Supporters Are Exploiting Capcut to Produce and Disseminate ‘No-Brand’ Propaganda Content Online
Since the advent of the Internet, extremists have exploited digital spaces to produce and spread...
Events
Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World - The Men and Women of the Foreign Office in WWII
We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West
