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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.

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The Biden Presidency: What Role for the UK on Iran?

Commentary, 22 January 2021

Aniseh 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, UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran, UK

The US delegate's seat at the UN Security Council

The Biden Administration’s First Steps and the UN

Commentary, 22 January 2021

Richard 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

Wall Street sign in front of a building decorated with US flags

Of Some Benefit: US Corporate Transparency Inches Forward

Commentary, 21 January 2021

Tom 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 2021

Karin 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 2021

Peter 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...

UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UK

The Future of UK–EU Security Cooperation

Commentary, 18 January 2021

Julian 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...

UK Integrated Review 2021, Brexit, UK, National Security, Europe

Underwater Drone Incidents Point to China’s Expanding Intelligence Gathering

Commentary, 15 January 2021

H I Sutton

China’s apparent efforts to survey within other country’s territorial waters may go unchallenged.

China, Intelligence

HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Dragon at sea

The UK Should Align with Biden in the Indo-Pacific

Commentary, 14 January 2021

David 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...

UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UK

The UK and Afghanistan: Raising Our Voice

Commentary, 13 January 2021

Joyce 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.

UK Integrated Review 2021, Afghanistan, UK

Does the Pandemic Tell Us Anything About War Casualties?

Commentary, 12 January 2021

Tim 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...

The Great War, Coronavirus, UK