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Hard Choices, Sharpened Resolve: Renewed Mutual Purpose
A lecture by His Excellency Mr Louis B. Susman, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the ...

Take Me Back to Constantinople - How Byzantium, not Rome, can help preserve Pax Americana
A lecture by Edward Luttwak, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC) and author of The ...

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Hague FCO Flickr Analysis: Beyond Rhetoric: Could the Heightened Falklands Debate Threaten British Strategic Interests In Latin America? 31 Jan 2012 by Matt Ince
Relations between Latin America and the UK are at a level unseen for almost two centuries, but attempts by Argentina to diplomatically isolate the UK from the region over the Falkland Islands could seriously impact British strategic interests across the continent. Defence Policy Americas
US DoD Analysis: New US Defence Strategy: Why Obama is Abandoning America's Commitment to Fight Two Major Wars 9 Jan 2012 by Dr Lisa Aronsson
President Obama's new defence strategy purportedly removes the United States historic commitment to fight two major theatre wars simultaneously. Despite the strategic and financial rationale, he will have to sell this departure in strategy to the American public. US Defence Policy Defence Policy United States Americas
US DoD Analysis: New US Defence Strategy: Implications for the United States Air Force 9 Jan 2012 by Elizabeth Quintana
President Obama's new defence strategy with its reorientation towards the Pacific is good news for airpower and the US Air Force. Despite proposed budget cuts, there will be a continued reliance on strategic air assets. Technology Aerospace US Defence Policy Defence Policy United States Americas
2012 button Analysis: VIDEO: Perspectives for 2012 16 Dec 2011 by Professor Michael Clarke
RUSI Director General Professor Michael Clarke offers his defence and international security perspectives for the year ahead. International Institutions Global Security Issues Middle East and North Africa Pacific Europe Americas Afghanistan Central and South Asia
2012 button Analysis: Aftershocks and Transitions: an Unashamedly Speculative Look at 2012 15 Dec 2011 by Shashank Joshi
If this year brought us an earthquake, then 2012 will be a year of aftershocks and transitions. Speculate as we might, we must still prepare for the predictable but watch for the surprises. India Central and South Asia Afghanistan Pakistan Egypt Middle East and North Africa The Gulf Region Libya Iran Iraq Middle East Peace Europe Pacific Americas
2012 button Analysis: Where do we go From Here? Transitioning from Dictatorship to Democracy in 2012 15 Dec 2011
The democratic gains made from the Arab Spring are by no means assured. 2012 will see would-be democracies challenged to respond to and enable an historical transformation from dictatorship to democracy. Americas Europe Middle East and North Africa
Prescott_cyber_thumbnail RUSI Journal: War by Analogy: US Cyberspace Strategy and International Humanitarian Law 9 Dec 2011
A new legal and policy framework, consistent with international humanitarian law, must be defined for operations in cyberspace Cyber Technology United States Americas
Mexico Visit MOD Talk News: RUSI delegation presents agenda-setting report to high-level Mexican officials 25 Nov 2011 by Elizabeth Deheza
Members of the Climate Change and Security Programme have met high-level officials in Mexico to discuss the findings of a new interim RUSI report. Credited for setting the agenda in the country, the report received praise from various officials including the National Security Advisor to the President of Mexico. Climate Security Global Security Issues Americas
Foley_IC Reform RUSI Newsbrief: Planning Permission: US Intelligence Community Reform, 2001-11 23 Nov 2011
In the wake of 9/11, the US Intelligence Community came under unprecedented pressure to reform, yet this process has failed to understand and correct some of its most fundamental weaknesses. Terrorism The decade after 9/11 United States Americas
Sutyagin_History Repeating RUSI Newsbrief: Iskander, Pershing II and Missile Defences: History Repeating 23 Nov 2011 by Dr Igor Sutyagin
Russia continues to oppose the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence, despite the proposed deployment having shifted to southeast Europe, highlighting the continuation of misperceptions, paranoia and propaganda hysteria in Moscow. NATO International Institutions Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Strategy Global Security Issues Russia Europe United States Americas
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