Communication Cluster

• New media versus traditional media
• Campaign models and revenue streams
• The role of information in shaping perception and carrying influence
• The involvement of the public in politics and political expression
• Civil Society and non-governmental organisations engagement
• The role of culture, religion and heritage in developing communication strategies

Behaviours Cluster

• Political systems and ideologies
• Linguistics and culture
• Theological interfaces: religion and security
• Justice and ethics
• Subversion and radicalisation
• Regional perspectives:
• Russia
• Central Asia
• Middle East
• Africa

Campaigns Cluster

• Military Assistance to Stabilisation and Development 
• Security Co-operation – building stability and confidence
• Defence and Security Relations – contributing to and exploitation of experience for research and education
• Developing international structures and institutions
• Coalitions of mixed capabilities: multi-agency and comprehensive approaches
• Overseas military and security education: – supporting UK Defence Academy outreach
• Regulation of non-state partners
• Public Sector governance and productivity

Strategy Cluster

• Organisational learning, adaptation and ethos
• Net Assessment and strategic thinking
• The changing dynamics of the strategic competition
• Geo-economic strategies: national debts
• Enduring competitive advantages
• Transnational challenges
• Organisational barriers to strategy
• The making of strategy, emerging concepts
• Capabilities, innovation, transformation and value creation

Capacity Cluster

• Resilience to crises (including financial and economic as well as electronic, health etc)
• Resources and climate change (including energy security, water and strategic raw materials)
• Public, Private and Voluntary Sector governance and productivity (based on taxes, donors, investors, debt and scarce resources)
• Transnational Organised Crime
• Wealth creation, innovation and economic growth
• Economic development and restructuring programme outcomes
• The International Organisation of Credit (from the Bretton Woods Institutes to private sector financial engineering)