International Program on Global Security, Emerging Technologies & Artificial Intelligence

For 17 years, NPSGLOBAL’s International Program has trained diplomats, government officials, security and defense professionals, academics, and high-potential young leaders from across Latin America and beyond.

Global security challenges no longer fit into neat disciplinary boxes. This program exists to help professionals:

• Think strategically across domains
• Anticipate systemic risks
• Engage confidently in high-level policy conversations
• Understand how technology reshapes diplomacy, security, and governance
• Develop leadership skills

There is no single “ideal profile”. Each cohort is intentionally diverse and interdisciplinary. Participants typically include:

• Diplomats and foreign service officers
• Government officials and policymakers
• Defense, security, and law-enforcement professionals
• Scholars and researchers working on security issues
• High-potential young professionals seeking strategic positioning

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What they share is not age or background — but a moment of professional transition:

• Expanding responsibilities
• Increasing exposure to strategic decision-making
• Integrating technology and security into their work
• Strengthening influence, judgment, and networks
• Starting a successful professional career

The program is policy-oriented, not theoretical. Demanding, but affordable for professionals. Focused on strategic reasoning, not rote learning.

All modules include evaluation, discussion, and applied analysis. This is not a short course, but it is not a university program either. The goal is clarity of thought, not accumulation of credentials.

Artificial intelligence is addressed both as a dedicated field of study and as a cross-cutting factor shaping all domains of international security, diplomacy, and decision-making. Each module integrates:

• The strategic implications of AI and technological disruption
• Impacts on security architectures, diplomacy, escalation dynamics, and governance
• Limits of existing regulatory and institutional frameworks

A dedicated module addresses AI explicitly — but the program’s strength lies in showing how AI reshapes everything else, not treating it as a standalone topic.

Participants engage with a comprehensive set of tools spanning international security, strategic technologies, law, intelligence, negotiation, and policy design, including a lens of how artificial intelligence and new technologies are transforming each of these domains.

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• Strategic risk and global security architectures
  Power transitions, deterrence, escalation dynamics, and instability in an increasingly fragmented international system.
• Nuclear technology
  Nuclear weapons. Civil nuclear programs, energy, safeguards, verification, and their role in strategic stability and international trust.
• Chemical and biological risks
  Governance, prevention, and response frameworks related to chemical and biological weapons and dual-use capabilities.
• Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
  Impacts on intelligence, decision-making, command-and-control, crisis management, diplomacy, and governance.
• Weapons systems and emerging military technologies
  Conventional and unconventional weapons, delivery systems, missiles, drones, and their implications for regional and global security.
• Intelligence, strategic analysis, and threat assessment
  How information is produced, interpreted, distorted, and translated into advice and action under conditions of uncertainty.
• Negotiation, diplomacy, and crisis management
  Practical tools for negotiation, signaling, trust-building, and managing escalation in high-stakes international contexts.
• Public policy design and strategic
  Designing, evaluating, and communicating security policies that are politically viable, institutionally sound, and operationally relevant.
• Legal and normative frameworks
  International law, arms control regimes, non-proliferation agreements, and the limits of existing regulatory architectures.
• Terrorism and asymmetric threats
  Evolving threat landscapes, non-state actors, and the interaction between technology, ideology, and security responses.
• Human factor
  Decision-making under stress, cognitive biases, leadership, ethics, and responsibility in high-stakes security environments.

The program brings together an international faculty of senior practitioners, analysts, and experts with deep experience and strong presence in media.

Beyond their academic prestige, staff members are selected for their ability to connect their experience with political practice, in order to transform ideas into action.

With 17 years of continuous delivery, the program has trained over 300 participants from 16 countries, creating a diverse and enduring alumni network across Latin America and beyond.

It is officially recognized as a relevant educational offering for disarmament and non-proliferation by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), and operates in cooperation with key regional and international institutions.

Most of graduates have seen their careers boosted after learning with NPSGLOBAL. They remain connected through professional networks, informal collaboration, and shared analytical language — often long after the program ends. Some of them are now part of our teaching and research staff.

This continuity is one of the program’s most valuable assets.

Starts on April 14, 2026. Main features are:

• Intensive, delivered virtually
• April to November 2026
• Three sessions per week
• Designed for professionals balancing demanding schedules
• Delivered in Spanish. The Program actively explores tools and practices that enable multilingual participation in international security environments.
• Reading and writing proficiency in English is required