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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. |
‘Who Let the Dogs Out’: The Czech Intelligence Service Annual Report and the Challenges of Discussing Threats in a Postfactual Age
Commentary, 4 December 2020Ondrej Ditrych
The Czech domestic intelligence service details the threats to which the Central European country is exposed. It shows the broader challenges of talking about threats as mistrust in established...
Information, Intelligence, Resilience, Europe
Russia’s Clandestine Chemical Weapons Programme: The Bellingcat Exposure
Commentary, 3 December 2020Tom Burge
Findings by the Bellingcat investigative group are a reminder of the power of open source research in enhancing deterrence posture.
Russia, UK, National Security, Resilience
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of New Standards on Assessing WMD Financing Risk
Commentary, 3 December 2020Darya Dolzikova and Emil Dall
The Financial Action Task Force now requires countries to assess proliferation financing risk, a welcome step in global efforts to counter sanctions evasion by actors such as North Korea. However,...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
After the Referendum: Reviving Dialogue in Algeria
Commentary, 2 December 2020Riccardo Fabiani and Michael Ayari
A November constitutional referendum has failed to address the Algerian protest movement’s demands for political change. The need to establish a dialogue mechanism to tackle the country’s growing...
Middle East and North Africa
The Financial Crime Case for a Global Anti-Corruption Agency for Professional Sports
Commentary, 1 December 2020Jonathan van der Valk
The corruption and illicit financial flows permeating the sports world undermine its integrity. Could a world anti-corruption body for sports be the answer?
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Law and Ethics
What Does Biden’s Victory Mean for the Indo-Pacific?
Commentary, 30 November 2020Walter Ladwig
The substance of Joe Biden’s approach to the region and key actors will remain very similar to that of his predecessor, albeit with a different tone and a much greater focus on coordinating with...
China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, United States, India, Pacific
Saudi Arabia and International Summitry: Hard Try, and Harder Times Ahead
Commentary, 27 November 2020Michael Stephens
The Saudis hosted a G20 summit overshadowed by the pandemic. It is not what they wanted, but the kingdom is working hard to reposition its international footprint.
The Gulf Region
Far-Right Extremism Steals the Show in 2020
Commentary, 26 November 2020Jessica White
Throughout a year defined by the global pandemic, racial inequality movements and political polarisation, the US has been in the spotlight as the epicentre of social upheaval and amplification of far...
Terrorism and Conflict, United States, Domestic Security, Terrorism
The Geopolitics of Indo-Pacific Trade
Commentary, 25 November 2020Andrew Cainey
While there is talk of a broader ‘Indo-Pacific’, encompassing the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific, this is not yet reflected in the geopolitics of trade.
China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, India, Pacific
Is Defence’s Latest Operating Model Fit for Purpose?
Commentary, 24 November 2020Andrew Curtis
The Ministry of Defence has published a new version of its operating model – ‘How Defence Works’ – its first update for almost five years. Given the major changes to Defence ways of working in that...
Armed Forces, UK Defence Policy, UK Integrated Review 2021, UKPages
India’s Indo-Pacific Vision: Stabilising the Indian Ocean Region
Multimedia, 4 November 2020This week, Veerle is joined by Darshana Baruah, Visiting Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo and non-resident scholar with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Episode Three: Dark Money and Democracy
Multimedia, 30 October 2020Has foreign ‘dark money’ undermined democracy as we know it? And can a solution lie in a smarter understanding of financial flows? Tom Keatinge is joined by analyst Edward Lucas, Gemma Rogers of...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Countering Malign Information Operations: The Lithuanian Experience
Multimedia, 30 October 2020Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Episode One: Kleptocracy and the US Elections
Multimedia, 30 October 2020Much is at stake for the global fight against kleptocracy in 2020 and beyond. Hear why the US election results could be a turning point with former government lawyer Elise Bean, author Ben Judah,...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Living with Uncertainty: The Assumptions Underpinning Chinese Nuclear Strategy
Multimedia, 30 October 2020Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Episode Two: What’s in Store for Sanctions?
Multimedia, 30 October 2020No matter who wins, the US sanctions strategy is sure to be impacted by the upcoming election. How will the results affect Washington’s current favoured foreign policy tool? Emil Dall speaks with...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Western Way of War: Rules, Norms, and Structures
Multimedia, 29 October 2020Peter Roberts is joined by Heather Conley from CSIS to talk INF, START, Open Skies, Coalitions of the Committed and the diversification of dependencies. The episode poses the question as to whether...
Tags: Military Sciences
Trailer: Financial Crime Insights
Multimedia, 27 October 2020Alanna Putze talks to CFCS colleagues Isabella Chase and Tom Keatinge about the thinking behind this podcast and what listeners can expect – from the speakers, topics and ideas in the world of...
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Western Way of War: Bad Procurement: A Peculiarly Western Issue?
Multimedia, 22 October 2020Peter Roberts talks to John Louth, Defence Acquisition guru, about the military-industrial relationship, balance sheets, not winging it, the conspiracy of optimism, the cost of technology, speed/pace...
Tags: Military Sciences
Japan’s Indo-Pacific Vision: What's Next After Abe?
Multimedia, 21 October 2020Veerle and Ryosuke Hanada, Indo-Pacific Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre, explore the origins of Japan’s Indo-Pacific policy, unpack its trajectory over the last few years, and look ahead at whether...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement