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UK-India

Britain is seeking closer ties with India post-Brexit, with both sides having a “strategic convergence on a range of issues including an acknowledgement that China’s aggression...

Aaditya Dave

South China Morning Post
10 May 2021

Counter-extremism

Policymakers and programme designers need to take into account the wider perspective of how socio-cultural constructions of gender identities drive both men and women to...

Dr Jessica White

Rantt
6 May 2021

UK-India

Aaditya Dave, research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London, described the western Indian Ocean as a convergence of interests. "They both have economic...

Aaditya Dave

Asia Nikkei
5 May 2021

G-7 Meeting

"It's easy to make a statement of democracy in very general terms, but the devil is always in the detail because once you come down to making specific comments, not least in the...

Malcolm Chalmers

Nikkei Asia
3 May 2021

Publications

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Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Investigations in West Africa

Occasional Papers

Maximising the Utility of the British Army’s Combat Aviation

Occasional Papers

Creating Restraint in Cyberspace: Forward Cyber Operations and Theories of Restraint

Occasional Papers

The Integrated Review: The UK as a Reluctant Middle Power?

Occasional Papers

Latest News

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New RUSI Project on Artificial Intelligence and Financial Crime

10 May 2021

RUSI Develops Free-Trade Zone Risk Assessment Tool

26 April 2021

Obituary: Eric Grove, 1948–2021

16 April 2021

ACAMS - RUSI Launch Results of Digital ID Survey

14 April 2021

Trending Themes

Coronavirus

Sputnik V: Vaccine Glasnost, at Last? 12 March 2021
The Budding Alliance Between Lockdown Critics and the Far-Right in Germany 2 March 2021

European Union

Democratic Backsliding in Europe: Who is to Blame? 11 May 2021
The EU’s Russia Policy Is a Fiasco Which May Endure 15 March 2021

Intelligence

Bohemian Forest Dark Tales: The Czech Republic, Russia’s Dirty War Machine and Western Solidarity 21 April 2021
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies 5 March 2021

Global Security Issues

The Israeli–Gaza Clashes: A New Chapter or Same Old Story? 14 May 2021
Dealing with Russia as It is, Rather Than as We’d Want It to Be 7 May 2021