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RUSI experts and associates provide analysis on the latest developments in defence, security and international affairs.
Migrants and Militias: Libya’s Enduring Crises
14 December 2017
Sweden’s Choice: NATO or the Nuclear Ban?
22 September 2017
Translating Political Will into Action: The Fight Against Criminal Finances
Commentary, 16 January 2018Helena Wood
Political will to tackle criminal proceeds was on prominent display last month, as the UK government held the inaugural meeting of the Global Forum on Asset Recovery and launched its Anti-Corruption...
AML/CTF, Organised Crime
Thinking About Home? The National Security Capabilities Review and UK Defence
Commentary, 15 January 2018Ewan Lawson
The new National Security Capabilities Review might engage the public in thinking about its role in protecting the UK in contrast to perceiving the military as primarily for going far away to fight...
Defence Spending, UK, UK Defence, Europe
The Great War Remembered
Commentary, 12 January 2018This year marks not simply the centenary of the end of the ‘War to End all Wars’, but is also the conclusion of four years of contemplation on the conflict that changed the way in which combat was...
The Great War, History
Germany and Turkey Try to Make Up
Commentary, 11 January 2018Tobias Borck
Berlin and Ankara are looking to tone down the rhetoric of their disputes. However, the bilateral relationship, the most important one Turkey has with any European country, is likely to remain...
Turkey, Germany, Europe
The UK Defence Industrial Policy Document: Few Real Constraints or Direction for Future Choices
Commentary, 10 January 2018A British government document that Whitehall clearly did not want to highlight is worth reading
Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Management, UK, UK Defence, Europe
2018: The Year Ahead
Commentary, 3 January 2018In the next few days watch our experts discuss how the defence and international security landscape may change in the year ahead.
Financial Crime 2.0: International Cooperation Vital in Fight Against Cybercrime
Commentary, 15 December 2017Olivier Kraft
Discussions at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies annual conference can inform the future work of the UK’s new national economic crime centre, announced recently by Home Secretary...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Migrants and Militias: Libya’s Enduring Crises
Commentary, 14 December 2017Tobias Borck
Libya is back in the international spotlight after reports emerged of African migrants being sold to the highest bidder. However, this is just one aspect of the North African state’s seven-year...
Sahel, United Nations, NATO, African Union, European Union, Europe, Africa
Bitcoin: Have the Lessons of the Financial Crash been Learned?
Commentary, 11 December 2017Kathryn Vagneur
Cryptocurrencies are taking off, with Bitcoin seemingly breaking records on a daily basis. However, although financial institutions are quick to adapt to changes, they often fail to respond to new...
Technology
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Anti-Terrorism Effort: A Coalition of the Willing or an Anti-Iran Front?
Commentary, 6 December 2017Kamal Alam and Wajahat S Khan
Saudi Arabia’s new Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition has been hailed as an historic organisation which will not only serve a military purpose but also take the ideological fight against...
The Gulf Region, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
Virtuous Currencies: Time to Accentuate the Positive
Colombia’s New President: Will the Peace Deal Survive?
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Moving From the Personal to the Strategic Domain