The Intelligence School has established the first Master in OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, which sets out to provide concrete theoretical and practical skills, so that they can be actively used by anyone who may find themselves working in civil and/or military intelligence situations.
It is the first Master that addresses -in keeping with the practice of École Universitaire Internationale– the classical and innovative methodologies of intelligence in an interdisciplinary way, in order to understand and assimilate in a practical and operational manner the concept of intelligence and its applications.
The Intelligence School and the Master address the international themes and the operational methodologies that are used in intelligence operations. The programme includes the most innovative subjects on the international scene: operational intelligence, ethnic psychology, cross-culture, new methodologies of applied analysis, counter-terrorism, strategic communication applied to counter-terrorism….
The Intelligence School is aimed at civilian personnel, at civilian and military personnel already in service within the public administration (police forces, armed forces, etc…), at experts, and also at university students and graduates who wish to deepen their studies in the field and/or wish to take up a career in the field.
Starting dates: October 2026 – May 2027 [enrolment open from 1 February 2026]
The Master lasts one academic year in all
Methodology: online lessons and lessons held in the classroom
Admission: subject to assessment of the candidate’s C.V. (and a possible online interview)
Teaching areas and subjects:
Intelligence, National Security and International Security
- Intelligence and the concept of national security
- The functions of intelligence
- Terrorism
- Counter-terrorism
- The financing of terrorism and operational and legislative countermeasures
- Institutions of the Middle East
- Methods of intervention
- Information: study and collection
- Management and planning of operations
- Civil intelligence – Military intelligence
- Operational intelligence
- The undercover agent, operational techniques
- The intelligence analyst
- The handling of sources
- Geopolitics & Geostrategy
- Cyberwar and Cybersecurity
- The new threats to national security
- The CBRN threat
- Economic and financial intelligence
- Identification techniques
- Neuropsychology applied to intelligence
- The training of intelligence personnel
- Intelligence and the political decision-maker; decision-making processes
Operational Strategy
- Psychological warfare
- The strategy of tension
- Security management at sensitive sites
- Analysis
- Prevention of an attack
- Counter-espionage
- Ways and techniques of infiltration and exfiltration
- Hostage negotiation
Strategic Communication and Psyops
- Verbal and non-verbal communication applied in intelligence activities
- Communication in crises and emergencies
- Strategic communication
- Media management
- Understanding and analysis of conflicts
- Psyops
Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology applied to security
- General Anthropology
- Sociology of Crime
- Anthropology of the criminal figure
- Anthropology of security
- Scenario & Context
- Ethnic psychology
- Cultural intelligence
- Cross-culture
- Bias and errors of perception in intelligence analysis and activities
- Neuro-physio-psychological bases of behaviour
Investigative disciplines
- Investigative techniques
- Military and Police Interrogation Techniques
- Analysis of documents and document forgery
- International management of witnesses
Global systems and diplomacy
- The international organisations engaged in security
- The NATO system; the CSDP-EU system
- Diplomacy, in theory and in practice
- Parallel diplomacy
- Peacekeeping intelligence