This will be a 3-day executive training led by Lancaster academics comprising lectures, workshops, simulations, exercises and discussions. Participants will be provided with a reading list before the course starts. A certificate of completion will be issued to all participants.

• Day 1 - The focus will be on the strategic studies literature on offensive and and defensive cyber strategy, including debates around escalation, deterrence, coercion, and resilience in cyber security, and with a focus on military-strategic debates and threats.

• Day 2- The focus will be on the national security strategies of the great powers’, the US, Russia and China - the focus will be on ‘national security’ , but will include analysis of the role of non-state actors and cyber strategy, cybercrime actors, and the role of policing and intelligence agencies in offensive and defensive cyber.

• Day 3 will cover national cyber security strategy and policy development in the UK, as well as emerging patterns of international cooperation including the emergence of international laws, norms, NATO, EU, UN processes and other cbyer security strategies

A charge of 150 GBP covers all tuition, reading materials, morning tea and coffee and lunches.