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International Security and Development

Master's

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⇑International Security and Development at UJ

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: security services

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website:
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⇑Why study International Security and Development (Master's) at UJ?

Why study it:

Programme: security and development in one programme
Specialisation: two academic tracks
Placements: placements and expert workshops
Languages: English plus a second language
After graduation: from ministries to international organisations

Jagiellonian University in Kraków (UJ) runs International Security and Development (ISAD) at the Centre for International Studies and Development, part of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, as a two-year, four-semester full-time Master's programme taught in English, with a general academic profile. It is for graduates who want to understand and manage complex problems of global security and development in an international setting.

Programme: security and development in one programme

ISAD encourages creative thinking about complex problems of global security and development. You gain analytical tools, language skills and intercultural understanding, together with the professional skills needed to manage security and development in an international environment. Classes are taught both by international experts and by UJ lecturers, and the discipline behind the programme is political science and public administration.

Specialisation: two academic tracks

Specialisations

Track oneinternational security and crisis management
Track twodevelopment and security

Placements: placements and expert workshops

Practice is built into the programme: ISAD includes professional placements as well as workshops led by experts in the field.

Languages: English plus a second language

All academic courses are taught in English, which prepares you to work in an international environment and at different levels of management. On top of that, every student learns a second foreign language of their choice. Many of the Faculty's English-taught programmes run under agreements with universities abroad, so you study in a nationally and culturally diverse environment.

After graduation: from ministries to international organisations

Graduates are prepared to work, in Poland or in their home countries, in:

central and local government administration
state security agencies and bodies
economic and social organisations
international institutions and organisations dealing with security and development aid

Did you know? ISAD students can join The ISAD Panopticon, a student-run magazine that explains international security, development and related fields in an accessible way.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme pages at studia.uj.edu.pl.

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International

International mostly means something (a company, language, or organization) involving more than a single country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries. For example, international law, which is applied by more than one country and usually everywhere on Earth, and international language which is a language spoken by residents of more than one country.

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Security

Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.

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Security

But why should there be an exception relative to security? What special reason is there that the production of security cannot be relegated to free competition? Why should it be subjected to a different principle and organized according to a different system?

Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §II of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), p. 24.

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Security

[T]he production of security should, in the interests of the consumers of this intangible commodity, remain subject to the law of free competition. … [N]o government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity.

Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §II of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 22–23.

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Security

Everywhere, when societies originate, we see the strongest, most warlike races seizing the exclusive government of the society. Everywhere we see these races seizing a monopoly on security within certain more or less extensive boundaries, depending on their number and strength.And, this monopoly being, by its very nature, extraordinarily profitable, everywhere we see the races invested with the monopoly on security devoting themselves to bitter struggles, in order to add to the extent of their market, the number of their forced consumers, and hence the amount of their gains.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §VI of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 34–35.

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