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Financial Crime Insights Podcast Series The episodes in this series are based on past Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) events with top thinkers on topics that remain relevant in the world of financial crime. |
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Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series Hosted by Veele Nouwens, this podcast provides an essential a platform to discuss the key defence and security questions of the world’s most dynamic region: the Indo-Pacific. |
The Biden Administration’s First Steps and the UN
Commentary, 22 January 2021Richard Gowan
The new US administration is keen to regain its pivotal role in the UN. Not before time – and the agenda is daunting.
United Nations, United States
The Biden Presidency: What Role for the UK on Iran?
Commentary, 22 January 2021Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Darya Dolzikova and Tom Plant
UK and US policy towards Iran has diverged substantially in recent years, and both countries need to work hard to restore their partnership. The UK can do its part through a re-energised agenda on...
Iranian Nuclear Pathways, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran, UK
Of Some Benefit: US Corporate Transparency Inches Forward
Commentary, 21 January 2021Tom Keatinge
The fêting of new company registration requirements in the US is understandable, but critical gaps remain.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, United States, AML/CTF
The Biden Presidency: The Benefits of Being Boring
Commentary, 20 January 2021Karin von Hippel
As Joe Biden takes the oath of office today as the 46th President of the US, RUSI’s Director-General reflects on the challenges and opportunities facing his administration.
United States
Time for a New UK–US Relationship
Commentary, 19 January 2021Peter Roberts
With the arrival of each new US president, the incumbent UK prime minster hopes to revitalise the UK–US ‘special relationship’ in defence and security. It has largely been missing in action since the...
United States, UK
The Future of UK–EU Security Cooperation
Commentary, 18 January 2021Julian King and John Scarlett
The agreement governing future relations between the UK and the EU has addressed only some of the serious questions about future security cooperation. Many challenges lie ahead, and goodwill, as well...
Brexit, UK, National Security, Europe
Underwater Drone Incidents Point to China’s Expanding Intelligence Gathering
Commentary, 15 January 2021H I Sutton
China’s apparent efforts to survey within other country’s territorial waters may go unchallenged.
China, Intelligence
The UK Should Align with Biden in the Indo-Pacific
Commentary, 14 January 2021David Hutt
Having failed to beat the EU to the Indo-Pacific, and with US–EU relations less than ideal ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration this month, the UK could carve out a niche in Asia by aligning with US...
United States, UK
The UK and Afghanistan: Raising Our Voice
Commentary, 13 January 2021Joyce Anelay
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, which I chair, has just published its report, ‘The UK and Afghanistan’. Here are its main findings.
Afghanistan, UK
Does the Pandemic Tell Us Anything About War Casualties?
Commentary, 12 January 2021Tim Willasey-Wilsey
It has become commonplace to suggest that British people today would not accept the levels of casualties suffered on the Western Front during the First World War. In Afghanistan the loss of 454...
Coronavirus, The Great War, UKPages
Episode Ten: Counter Terrorism Financing: Does the Current Global Approach Work?
Multimedia, 22 January 2021Twenty years on from the 9/11 attacks, has the global response to terrorist financing adapted alongside the evolving risk landscape? The CFCS’s Tom Keatinge is joined by Rachel Love from Standard...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Is the West Developing Innovation Fatigue?
Multimedia, 21 January 2021Acknowledging the power of innovation as a driver for building a competitive edge in warfare, new defence policies in the UK and US since 2015 began elevating military innovation as the chief...
Tags: Military Sciences
Trump, Biden, and the Indo-Pacific
Multimedia, 20 January 2021After the inauguration of President-elect Biden, this episode both takes a retrospective look at what worked and what didn’t in the Trump Administration’s approach to the Indo-Pacific, and examines...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Adversarial Studies: Russian Strategic Thinking and the Kremlin’s Approach to Coercion
Multimedia, 19 January 2021In this seminar, Dr Michael Kofman charts the evolution of Russian strategic thinking over the past few decades, explaining how concepts of integrated deterrence and escalation management shape the...
Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Season Three Trailer: Policy Into Practice
Multimedia, 18 January 2021Isabella Chase and Tom Keatinge, two of your hosts for this season, discuss the thinking behind the ‘Policy into Practice’ concept and give listeners a glimpse of what’s in store – from the array of...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Episode 2: Sir David Lidington on his Life in British Politics
Multimedia, 8 January 2021In this episode, Karin talks to the new Chair of the Institute, the Rt. Hon Sir David Lidington, KCB, CBE. Sir David discusses his career from the early days as a special adviser to eventually...
Tags: National Security
Episode Nine: Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
Multimedia, 8 January 2021Dirty money is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators and poisoning democracies. Journalist Tom Burgis unveils the stories that form his book Kleptopia. Alexandra Wrage, president and...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Counterproliferation Finance: 2021 Agenda at RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies
Multimedia, 5 January 2021Wojciech Pawlus, Outreach and Implementation Coordinator at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, talks what’s in store for our counter proliferation work in 2021.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Free Trade Zones, New Tech and Financial Crime: 2021 agenda at RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies
Multimedia, 5 January 2021Anton Moiseienko, Research Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, talks about his research agenda for 2021 on free trade zones, new tech and financial crime.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Policy and Implementation: 2021 Agenda at RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies
Multimedia, 5 January 2021Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, talks about what’s in store for the Centre in 2021.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
The Biden Administration’s First Steps and the UN
The Biden Presidency: What Role for the UK on Iran?
Episode Ten: Counter Terrorism Financing: Does the Current Global Approach Work?