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This programme examines contemporary security and defence challenges in a rapidly changing strategic environment. It focuses on hybrid threats, emerging domains of conflict, defence capabilities and doctrines, military transformation, security governance and operational partnerships. 

Hybrid Threats and Security of Strategic Domains

This sub-axis analyses threats below the threshold of open armed conflict, including hybrid operations, influence activities, economic coercion, sabotage and cyber threats. It also examines the security and resilience of critical strategic domains. 

Defence Capabilities, Doctrines and Military Transformation

This sub-axis focuses on the evolution of defence capabilities and military doctrines. It examines emerging technologies, lessons from contemporary conflicts, force structures, defence procurement, operational readiness and military logistics. 

Security Governance and Operational Partnerships

This sub-axis examines the institutional architecture of security, including defence governance and civil-military relations, as well as bilateral, regional and multilateral operational partnerships, training cooperation and crisis-management mechanisms. 

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Geoeconomic Competition and Influence Levers

Taking the Long View – Morocco’s Maritime Dimension

GGSF Team · 2 min read

Container ship at the APM Terminals quay, Tanger Med port, Morocco

GGSF Policy Brief N°10 on Morocco maritime strategy: Tanger Med, Nador West Med and Dakhla Atlantique, the Royal Atlantic Initiative, a diversifying blue economy, undersea cables and the emerging seabed frontier. Read the key takeaways, then download the full brief.

Diplomacy, Coalitions and Cooperation Models

Morocco’s Religious Diplomacy at a Crossroads

GGSF Team · 2 min read

Hassan II Mosque silhouetted against the Atlantic at sunset, Casablanca

GGSF Policy Brief N°08 on Morocco religious diplomacy. How the Commandership of the Faithful, the Mohammed VI Foundation for African Ulema and Sufi networks project influence — and why digital authority and competition put the Kingdom's religious soft power at a crossroads. Read the takeaways, then download the full brief.

Dual-Use Technologies and Critical Infrastructures

Cybersecurity in Morocco: From a Wake-Up Call to a New Era of Digital Sovereignty

GGSF Team · 2 min read

Server hall with racks of networking equipment in a data centre

GGSF Policy Brief N°05 on Morocco cybersecurity. The CNSS breach of April 2025 as the wake-up call: the DGSSI and maCERT response, Law 09.08 enforcement, the AFCON 2025 and 2030 World Cup stress test, and digital sovereignty. Read the key takeaways, then download the full brief.

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