Russia's New Ground Forces: Capabilities, Limitations and Implications for International Security
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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.
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Paper Launch – Big Data and Policing: An Assessment of Law Enforcement Requirements, Expectations and Priorities
06 September 2017, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
In recent years, big data technology has revolutionised many domains, including the retail, healthcare and transportation sectors. However, the use of big data for policing has so far been limited,...
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Paper Launch - Limiting the Use of Cash for Big Purchases: Assessing the Case for Uniform Cash Thresholds
08 September 2017, 8:00RUSI Whitehall
This Breakfast Briefing will explore the pros and cons of imposing “cash thresholds”, limits on high value cash transactions, including whether they should be introduced at a uniform level across...
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A Financial Approach to Policing Organised Crime
12 September 2017, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
The threat from serious and organised crime to the UK’s national security has been growing in prominence over the past decade and with it greater recognition of the need to ensure that law...
Domestic Security, National Security, Organised CrimeOpen to All
Whitehall Paper Launch: Russia's New Ground Forces: Capabilities, Limitations and Implications for International Security
12 September 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
This Whitehall Paper provides an in-depth analysis of Russia’s Ground Forces, including airborne and naval troops. It examines their role in Russian foreign policy, reforms to units’ equipment and...
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Assuring Access to Space Conference 2017
13 September 2017, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
'We are playing catch up on Space and if we take much more time in doing so, we will be left behind'General Sir Gordon Messenger, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence (June 2017)Register...
RUSI Members Only
Making Africa Work - A Handbook for Economic Success
13 September 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Released in May 2017, Making Africa Work – A handbook for economic success has been authored by the former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, who serves as Chairman of the Brenthurst Foundation’...
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Cyber Crime and Russian-speaking Communities
18 September 2017, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Much of the current strategic focus in cyber security focuses on the challenge which appears to emanate from Russian-speaking territories. This has primarily focused on allegations of governmental...
CyberOpen to All
Resilience Conference 2017
20 September 2017, 9:00Register Now Ensuring resilience is an increasingly complex imperative as threats diversify and interact with each other. Organised together with Loughborough University, this conference will explore...
Global Security Issues, Climate Security, NATO, Resilience, CyberRUSI Under 35's Members Only
M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster
27 September 2017, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
Based on Henry Hemming’s critically acclaimed M, described by Ben Macintyre in The Times as ‘fascinating’, and by Max Hastings in The Sunday Times as ‘excellent’, this talk reveals the dramatic true...
History, Information, IntelligencePages
Making Africa Work - A Handbook for Economic Success
13 September 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Released in May 2017, Making Africa Work – A handbook for economic success has been authored by the former President of Nigeria Olusegun...
Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2017
04 October 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The next eight years represent a continuing period of fundamental yet exciting change for the Royal Air Force as they adapt the way they...
Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940
20 October 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to...
British Foreign Policy After Brexit: An Independent Voice
10 November 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The authors will discuss how Britain’s global role and influence can be enhanced rather than diminished post-Brexit, with a diplomatic,...
Keir Starmer on the Implications of Brexit
17 November 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In his lecture, Keir will consider the wide ranging policy implications for the United Kingdom of leaving the European Union.BiographyThe...
Assuring Access to Space Conference 2017
13 September 2017, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
'We are playing catch up on Space and if we take much more time in doing so, we will be left behind'General Sir Gordon Messenger, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence (June 2017)Register...
Resilience Conference 2017
20 September 2017, 9:00Register Now Ensuring resilience is an increasingly complex imperative as threats diversify and interact with each other. Organised together with Loughborough University, this conference will explore...
Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities Conference: Force Enabler, Force Multiplier or Something More?
03 October 2017, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The last thirty years have seen the UK and other western nations lose their strong position in electronic warfare (EW) at the same time as operations in and through cyberspace have become an...
POSTPONED: Technology and Future Combat Conference
02 August 2017, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
Human free warfare, and human-machine combat teaming, has been the subject of a good deal of discussion over the past ten years making the transition from science fiction to fielded capability. To some, we are at an inflection point in the nature...
RUSI and the Victoria Cross in the First World War
27 July 2017, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
In August 2014 RUSI published the RUSI Roll of Honour, containing the names of over 500 members of the institute who perished between 1914 and 1918. As part of RUSI’s programme of activities to mark the centenary of the First World War, RUSI hosted...
RUSI MEMBERS ONLY: Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin
26 July 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
Founded by Catherine the Great in 1783, the maritime city of Sevastopol has been fought over for centuries. Crucial battles of the Crimean War were fought on the hills surrounding the city and the memory of this stalwart defence inspired those who...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Cyber Competition Scenario Planning
25 July 2017, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
Cyber 9/12 is a cyber policy and strategy competition run in conjunction with Cabinet Office, National Cyber Security Centre, RUSI and the Atlantic Council. The competition challenges teams of students to engage with cyber security policy and offer...
RUSI Annual General Meeting
20 July 2017, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Nominations for electionThe four following individuals will be nominated for election as Trustees of the Institute on 20 July 2017 (CV's attached):The Rt Hon the Baroness AshtonGeneral Sir Nicholas HoughtonMs Alison Levitt QCHis Grace the Duke of...
OPEN TO ALL: Occasional Paper - Below the Surface: How Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Threatens Our Security
18 July 2017, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
Operating out of sight, and largely out of reach of the public and law enforcement alike, organised, high-volume illegal fishing can involve a range of violent and destructive criminal practices. In particular illegal fishing offences are known to...
A Year After Turkey’s Failed Coup Attempt: The Implications of Turkey’s Changing Security Environment
14 July 2017, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Though the coup was thwarted at the cost of 248 dead and 2193 injured, the repercussions are felt in every quarter of Turkish political life. Meanwhile, the Syrian War poses a threat to Turkey’s border security and its regional interests. Because of...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Private roundtable with British Ambassador to Iran, Nicholas Hopton
12 July 2017, 16:30RUSI Whitehall
At this event he will examine the domestic political environment within Iran following the presidential elections in May, Iran's foreign policy within the context of the current GCC crisis and the future of the nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA). He...
OPEN TO ALL: Professor David Ormerod QC on the Protection of Official Data
12 July 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In February 2017 the Law Commission published a consultation paper entitled ‘The Protection of Official Data’, which suggests ways to improve the law around the protection of official information. The aim of this paper is to ensure that relevant...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Breakfast Briefing: Is your organisation fit for a complex and uncertain future? Four essential tests
12 July 2017, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
Over the next two decades, profound changes in political and societal structures, accelerated by transformative technologies, will require an organisation to be fit for a different kind of future. The speed and dimensions of such changes are...
OPEN TO ALL - Prospects for Russia’s Economy
11 July 2017, 12:30RUSI Whitehall
Even in light of sanctions and the drop in oil prices, according to the IMF growth is expected to return to the Russian economy in 2017. But what does this mean in the context of Russia's political economy, investment climate and upcoming elections...
RUSI MEMBERS ONLY: Defence Innovation and the UK: Responding to the Risks Identified by the US Third Offset Strategy
10 July 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
The US Third Offset Strategy identified that Russia, China and other emerging powers had closed significantly the defence technology gap and were approaching technological parity with the West across key capabilities. This threatens the UK’s ability...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Countering Terrorism & Violent Extremism, Building Peace: risks, contradictions & how to manage them
10 July 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
The political pressure to respond effectively to conflict and terrorist attacks, at home and abroad, is intensifying. This roundtable aims to provide a non-partisan space for continuing the conversation, drawing on insights from Saferworld, RUSI and...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Sanctions and Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities for UK Sanctions Policy
10 July 2017, 10:00As the UK seeks to leave the European Union its relations with Europe and the rest of the world will change significantly. This will include establishing a sanctions policy framework separate from the EU to ensure that the UK can continue to play a...
OPEN TO ALL: Al Qaeda, Iran and the future of terrorism in the Middle East
07 July 2017, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Whilst various states in the Middle East accuse each other of terrorism few would imagine a partnership between Iran and Al Qaeda.As ISIS retreats Al Qaeda is ready to take the lead role again and its quiet rebuilding has been underestimated. After...
Robust International Peacekeeping: Is Asia Up to the Task?
Brexit and Sanctions: Can the UK Lead From Behind?
Dealing with the Latest North Korea Missile Threat