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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
Brexit: Nothing to Declare? The Future of UK Border Security
Commentary, 4 December 2017Alexander Babuta
The UK Border Force is already over-stretched. So if adequate resources are not in place by the time Brexit comes around in March 2019, this could present many new opportunities for organised crime.
UK, Organised Crime, Europe
Public–Private Partnerships and Financial Crime: Advancing an Inclusive Model
Commentary, 1 December 2017Tom Keatinge
Two key problems must be addressed as law enforcement and financial institutions seek to tackle financial crime together: the danger of creating an exclusive system; and the risk that the daunting...
AML/CTF, Organised Crime
UK Defence Budget: We Are Going to Need a New Financial Plan
Commentary, 28 November 2017Peter Roberts
The UK armed forces will have to wait for a financial settlement until the outcome of the National Security Capability Review. Until then, the budgetary problems at the Ministry of Defence will go...
Defence Spending, UK, UK Defence, Europe
The UK and Ireland: Stepping Away from the Brexit Cliff
Commentary, 27 November 2017Edward Burke
The Irish government needs to engage the Unionists in Northern Ireland to find some way to prevent a hard border on the island.
UK, Europe
Israel and Saudi Arabia: The Best of ‘Frenemies’
Commentary, 21 November 2017Joseph Millis
Saudi Arabia and Israel appear to be putting aside decades of enmity due to a fear of Iran's nuclear ambitions and its actions in the region. Is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
The Gulf Region, Israel, Middle East and North Africa
Japan–Russia: Another Fine Mess
Commentary, 14 November 2017Jonathan Eyal
Russian President Vladimir Putin imposes new conditions to normalise Moscow’s relations with Tokyo.
Japan, Russia
Lebanon: The Return of Pax Syriana?
Commentary, 10 November 2017Kamal Alam
As Saudi Arabia yesterday ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon, Syria seems to be reasserting its historic control over its western neighbour.
Syria, Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa
Countdown to the FATF Evaluation: The UK’s updated National Risk Assessment on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Commentary, 8 November 2017Tom Keatinge, Olivier Kraft, Florence Keen, Helena Wood and David Artingstall
RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies welcomes the UK government’s new National Risk Assessment. However, there is a fear that it avoids recognising important systemic weaknesses.
AML/CTF, UK, Europe
Remembering ‘The Unremembered’: The Forgotten Workers of the First World War
Commentary, 2 November 2017Virginia Crompton
Wars cannot be executed without labourers. During the First World War – and in particular following the terrible losses of the Somme in 1916 – Britain’s War Office assembled an army of workers. Yet...
The Great War, History
Investigating the Finances of Criminality: The Record So Far and the Challenges Ahead
Commentary, 1 November 2017Mick Creedon
Upon his retirement, one of Britain’s former senior policemen reflects on the progress made in identifying and seizing the proceeds of crime, and offers suggestions for further improvement in this...
Organised Crime
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