11th Istanbul Security Conference and its Co-Events Have Concluded

The 11th Istanbul Security Conference, organized under the theme "Defense, Security, and Intelligence Revolution," concluded with the participation of numerous prominent figures and experts from Turkey and abroad.

Organized annually by the TASAM National Defense and Security Institute, the Istanbul Security Conference has become a brand in Turkey and Istanbul thanks to the strong participation of global security professionals, academics, bureaucrats, military personnel, researchers, businesspeople, and journalists. This year, the conference, titled "Defense, Security, and Intelligence Revolution: Doctrine, Governance, Industry, New Models and Institutions" took place on November 27-28, 2025, at the Wish More Hotel Istanbul.

The sub-themes of this year’s Conference are as follows: “New Concepts: Technological Revolution and the New Techno-politics | Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence: Preventive Security, War/Operation, Law, Empathy and Ethics | Radical Social Movements - Managing Multiple Chaos | Redefinition of Power Structures | Revolution in Energy and Resources | Focusing on Humanity’s Collective Future | Revolution in Science and Consciousness | Layers of Political Psychology and Security | Transrational Peace Philosophy and Security | Complex Systems Approach and Security“, “Priorities in the Preventive Defence, Security and Intelligence Ecosystem: Reason, Generation, Family-Youth, Faith, State, Climate, Air, Water, Food, Demography, Meritocracy, Economy, Health, Education, Employment, Cyber, Space, Strategic Infrastructure and Urban Security“, “New National and International Institutions: Artificial Intelligence Regulation | Ecosystem Governance in Defence/Security Planning – Doctrine and Inventory | Educational Transformation and Institutional Modeling | Thought and Innovation Ecosystem“, “National Models: USA | China | United Kingdom | France | Russia | Türkiye | Brazil“, “Organizational Models: UN | NATO / EU | SCO | Organization of Turkic States“.

Selected papers and speech collections from previous editions of the Istanbul Security Conference have been published as books by TASAM Publications. The 2015 proceedings were published under the title “Global Governance, Security and Actors: UN at its 70^th Year“, the 2016 proceedings as “Changing Nature of State: Borders of Security“, the 2017 proceedings as “New Security Ecosystem and Multilateral Cost“, the selected papers from 2018 as “Security of the Future“, selected papers of the 5^th Conference held in 2019 were published in October 2020 under the title “New World Architecture of Economy and Security“. The proceedings of the 6^th Conference in 2020 were published in December 2021 under the title “Security Institutions of the Future and Strategic Transformation After Covid-19“. The proceedings of the 7^th Conference in 2021 were published as “Post-Security Geopolitics: China, Russia, India, Japan and NATO“. And the 8^th Conference proceedings were published in April 2023 as “Post-Security Dilemmas, Integrations, Models and Asia“, the 2023 proceedings of the 9^th Conference were published in two volumes in December 2023 under the title “Strategic Transformation in the Security Ecosystem, and the 2024 proceedings of the 10^th Conference were published in two volumes as an e-book in April 2023 under the title “Technopolitical New World | Security of Security“.