ILSS Symposium Proceedings

The Institute for Leadership and Strategic Studies (ILSS) sponsors a yearly symposium where U.S. or international scholars, graduate, and undergraduate students are invited to submit papers and posters on a yearly topic.

Extended papers from selected abstracts will be published yearly by the University of North Georgia Press in a peer-reviewed and edited symposium conference proceeding.

2022 ILSS Symposium: United States Higher Education & National Security
2019 ILSS Symposium: Soldier-Leaders in the Age of AI: The Future of Pre-Commissioning Education
2018: Leadership in a Complex World: Private Military Security Companies' Influence on International Security and Foreign Policy
2017: Civil-Military Cooperation and International Collaboration in Cyber Operations
2016: Economic Security Symposium

2017 ILSS Symposium: Civil-Military Cooperation and International Collaboration in Cyber Operations

2018 ILSS Symposium: Private Military Security Companies' Influence on International Security and Foreign Policy

2019 ILSS Symposium: Soldier-Leaders in the Age of AI: The Future of Pre-Commissioning Education

2022 ILSS Symposium: United States Higher Education & National Security

2023 ILSS Symposium: Human Security Challenges: Past – Present – Future

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