The Chair in National Security is a unit established on 1st January 2015. It was created after a group of academics specialising in national and international security, regional conflicts, strategic studies and law of armed conflicts separated from the Chair in International Relations and Foreign Policy.

The Chair in of National Security is responsible for the teaching programme at the National Security field of studies, the research in the discipline of security studies and international relations studies, cooperation with the students interested in security issues, in particular with the National Security Student Association JU, but it is also responsible for the cooperation with external stakeholders working in the sector of national security and with foreign partners.