Transnational Security Cooperation
Senior Leadership Course on Indo-Pacific Security
The Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC) course is a week-long executive program at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies for the region’s most senior military and civilian leaders.
TSC is designed exclusively for leaders at the flag/general officer (OF-7 – OF-8), senior executive, and deputy minister levels whose responsibilities include strategic decision-making and multinational coordination across the Indo-Pacific.
The course provides a dedicated forum for candid, peer-level dialogue on the complex security challenges shaping the region.
Purpose
Security challenges in the Indo-Pacific are increasingly interconnected and transnational. Maritime tensions, cyber threats, economic disruption, irregular conflict, public health crises, and disaster response demands often intersect across borders and institutions.
TSC brings senior leaders together to examine how governments cooperate, coordinate, and respond to such challenges in practice.
Each annual iteration addresses contemporary priorities while maintaining a consistent focus on strategic judgment, practical cooperation, and institutional coordination.
Approach
TSC is structured as a senior executive forum.
The course integrates:
- Strategic framing discussions
- Facilitated peer dialogue
- Scenario-based executive exercises
- Leader-to-leader exchange
The cohort is intentionally limited to preserve depth of discussion and encourage candid engagement among decision-makers operating at the highest levels of responsibility.
Scope
While specific themes vary by year, TSC consistently engages issues such as regional strategy, maritime security, cyber, emerging technologies, economic resilience, disaster response, hybrid conflict, and cross-government coordination.
Participants join the DKI APCSS alumni network of about 15,000 security professionals across the Indo-Pacific upon completion.
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