Master’s programmes

MVNIA offers a four-semester full-time master’s degree in the field of Intelligence and national security and International Relations and European Studies. Completing a master’s degree is a mandatory condition of applications for doctoral and postdoctoral programmes.

Professional Master Programme

Professional Master Programmes are aimed at graduate students who wish to work for the Romanian Intelligence Service.

You can choose the Intelligence Analysis specialization within the Faculty of Intelligence Studies and, upon graduation, you will be employed as an analyst, or you can choose the Intelligence and National Security specialization within the Faculty of Information, and upon graduation, you will be employed as an operations officer.

The analysts monitor the global developments in order to understand tendencies, decode causal relationships, and anticipate foreseeable paths forward. By becoming the keeper of what we know and what we don’t know, you could have the role of shaping the collection of information activities or conveying assessments on important national security issues to the legal beneficiaries, such as the Romanian President or Prime Minister.

The operations officers collect information, which is then included in enhanced knowledge products or is used in building complex operations. The operations officers play the role of assessors of the operative situation, coordinate and recruit intelligence agents.

By using joint teams – analysts and operations officers, the Romanian Intelligence Service prevents the materialization of risks and neutralizes the threats to national security.

CURRICULUM FOR “INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY”

CURRICULUM FOR “INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS”

MASTER FOR ENHANCING THE SECURITY CULTURE WITHIN CIVIL SOCIETY

MVNIA offers Master for Enhancing the Security Culture within Civil Society programmes for civil society representatives who are interested in improving their knowledge of security education and security culture.

These master programmes are aimed at civil society and business sector experts who wish to learn more about how the field of intelligence can be academically studied and interconnected with all aspects of social life. For the purpose of ensuring a diversified analysis of the current complex global phenomena, the purpose of these programmes is also to offer society more research-based knowledge and to present a pluridisciplinary vision. Also, we aim to raise the awareness level regarding the dynamic challenges to the security environment of which Romania is part of, to the benefit of local and national authorities.

• MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

The Management of National Security Information master’s programme is aimed at:

• providing a basic understanding of the Romanian national security architecture, the legislation, and the roles played by the main institutions in our country in protecting Romania and its interests;
• deepening of the specific national and international security topics, teaching the concepts and practices that lie at the basis of the information management activity of foreign intelligence agencies;
• providing the necessary analytical tools for making value judgments on global security issues;
• providing support in writing research papers on various topics related to defense, national security, and intelligence management.

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• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN COUNTERING TERRORISM

The Information Management in Countering Terrorism master’s programme focuses on the following key areas:

• acquiring general knowledge on preventing and countering terrorism, as part of the national and Euro-Atlantic security;
• getting acquainted with the main international academic doctrines related to terrorist threats management;
• deepening the main conceptual elements employed by intelligence and security agencies in understanding and explaining potential terrorist manifestations;
• building an analytical framework needed by students to decode elements of global public speech and to understand the terrorist phenomenon.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE STUDIES

The program International Relations and Intelligence Studies (IRIS) develops competences that will allow graduates to:

• understand the content and mechanisms of governmental intelligence as related to international security dynamics;
• apply intelligence analysis techniques to assess the international security environment;
• theorize the relationship between intelligence producers and the national security decision-makers;
• explore the scientific research abilities specific to the field of International Relations and European Studies in an interdisciplinary framework.

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