Research Projects and Themes

Projects

  • The SA National Security Plan Research Project - proudly sponsored by the EDTP SETA",
  • The (Critical) Mineral Diplomacy Project
  • Geopolitical Risk Management Model (under development)

Research Themes 

  • Global Security, Governance and Democracy
  • Geopolitics and Critical minerals
  • Changes in the Rules-based World Order: Global Order and (Dis) Order or Reordering
  • National Security and Grand Strategy in Africa
  • Law and Order in South Africa and Africa
  • Armed Conflict, Security Dynamics and Conflict Prevention in Africa 
  • Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Counterterrorism in Africa

CGSS Short Learning Programmes

  • Postgraduate (PgDip) in Geopolitics (under development - due for 2028), focussing on the changing geopolitical order, threats to the geopolitical order, new opportunities in the geopolitical order, new defensives against threats in the 21st century.
  • High-Level Corruption Investigations
  • Investigating Cybercrimes
  • Threats to the Democratic State in the 21st Century