Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2018
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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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POSTPONED: Cyprus and Emerging threats in the Eastern Mediterranean
12 December 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
The event will focus on regional security challenges and emerging threats in the Eastern Mediterranean. This event will pay special attention to the role and significance of the Republic of Cyprus...
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Implementing North Korea Sanctions in Practice (with C4ADS)
12 December 2018, 14:30RUSI Whitehall
Managing North Korean sanctions risk has become significantly more complex in recent years, especially in the maritime space. Despite international sanctions requirements seeking to prevent illegal...
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Armed Drones in the Middle East: Proliferation and Norms in the Region
17 December 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
The outputs of the project, an Occasional Paper and an interactive website, will be presented by the two lead researchers, Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi and Justin Bronk, who will provide an overview of...
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Leaning in: Advancing the Role of Finance Against Modern Slavery
17 December 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
Access paper hereIn recent years, the financial sector has become an increasingly high-profile contributor to efforts to identify and disrupt modern slavery and human trafficking. Specific financial...
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How government agencies can identify and counter malign influence activities: Sweden’s pioneering approach
09 January 2019, 8:45RUSI Whitehall
The MSB has, together with specialists at Lund University, developed a pioneering handbook in how to counter malign influence. The handbook, which will be published this month, is designed to assist...
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Breaking the Ice – Russia and the West in 2019
09 January 2019, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
This RUSI Under35's Forum event will explore the increasingly complex relationship between Russia and the West, including the state of the current relationship and how and if this could be improved....
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Is Space the New Cyber? UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities
16 January 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
Conversations about space across the UK government are dominated by the military and industry. Despite broad agreement across other government departments on the importance of space, there seems to...
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Expert Judgement Workshop: Long-Range Precision Strike and Strategic Stability in Europe
23 January 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
Under its grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, RUSI’s Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme will be hosting a closed workshop to continue its research on how advances in the...
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Breakfast Briefing: From Complexity to Simplicity: Networks to Lone Actor Terrorism
30 January 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
International terrorism is constantly changing and evolving. ISIS's loss of territory has created a vacuum which is being filled by a mix of organisations, affiliates and other ideologies. At the...
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Douglas Haig Fellowship Lecture: Haig and the Aftermath, 1919
01 February 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
On 11 November 1918, Douglas Haig must have welcomed his imminent release from the immense burdens he had stoically borne for three years....
Is Space the New Cyber? UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities
16 January 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Conversations about space across the UK government are dominated by the military and industry. Despite broad agreement across other government departments on the importance of space, there seems to...
Missile Defence Conference 2019: Beyond Ballistic Missiles? Missile Defence in an Era of Great Power Competition
13 February 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The purpose of the conference will be to explore the ways in which missile defence programmes will have to adapt in an era where rogue states are not the bete noire of the international order. In...
Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2018
11 December 2018, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
The Speech It is hard to remember a time when the strategic and political context was more uncertain, more complex and more dynamic - instability is the defining condition. The threats to our nation are diversifying, proliferating and intensifying...
New Technologies and Nuclear Risks: A Discussion with UN Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu
11 December 2018, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
This agenda devoted significant attention to the consequences for human security of emerging means and methods of warfare, and many of the 116 steps and activities that the agenda outlined addressed related issues: the responsible use of technology...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering in the UK
10 December 2018, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
There are a number of broad estimates on the scale of money laundering in the UK, some of them referring to hundreds of billions of pounds per annum. Due to the hidden nature of money laundering, it is very hard to produce a robust measurement. Yet...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering in the UK
10 December 2018, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
There are a number of broad estimates on the scale of money laundering in the UK, some of them referring to hundreds of billions of pounds per annum. Due to the hidden nature of money laundering, it is very hard to produce a robust measurement. Yet...
Breakfast Briefing - Controlling China: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Xi Jinping's 'Fourth Magic Weapon'
10 December 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Artificial intelligence and big data may represent an industrial revolution, but combined with recognition technologies and existing systems of social control they may also usher in a revolution in the Communist Party's ability to reinforce its...
Reinstating national service: Lithuania's experience
06 December 2018, 8:15In cooperation with the Embassy of Lithuania, RUSI's Modern Deterrence project is pleased to invite you to an executive briefing by Gedrimas Jeglinskas, Lithuania's Vice Minister of Defence. Minister Jeglinskas, a graduate of the US Military Academy...
Have I Got Nukes for You: The UK PONI Christmas Quiz
04 December 2018, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
Get ready to pull on those Christmas jumpers and join other UK PONI members for an evening of friendly competition and quiz fun! Prizes will also be awarded for the best team name (last year’s winner was ‘Gold, Frankincense and MIRV’).UK PONI...
UK PONI Networking Event: Women in Nuclear
04 December 2018, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Through an informal activity, participants will engage with the leaders on an array of topics, including current nuclear issues and their unique experiences in the nuclear discipline. Come ready to chat and learn!For UK PONI members travelling from...
RUSI Paper Launch – Targeting the Finances of Cybercrime
04 December 2018, 8:00RUSI Whitehall
UK law enforcement agencies already seek to ‘follow the money’ to identify cybercriminals, as well as to confiscate the proceeds of cybercrime. Financial institutions are a crucial partner in those efforts, especially in cases involving ‘money mule...
Book Launch: The Hall of Mirrors by Jim Storr
29 November 2018, 17:30What can we learn from war, and warfare, in the 20th century? Surprisingly, the question has not been addressed.After the First World War, four empires ceased to exist and eight new countries were born in Europe. Following the Second World War,...
BY INVITATION ONLY: Mafiaround: The Fight Against Italian Mafias beyond Italy
29 November 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
Sharing practices and insights will be the primary goal, but rather than just listening to each other’s experiences and knowledge, the workshop will be organised around a number of thematic sessions including, but not limited to:How to recognise and...
The Evolving Role of the Military during non-discretionary National Crises
28 November 2018, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Brigadier Ridge will further reflect on what this means for the nature and construct of military deployments and how this has been reflected in recent British efforts. He will also offer some insights and thoughts as to what this might mean in the...
EVENT POSTPONED – Send for Levene: A Discussion with Lord Levene
27 November 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
A wide-ranging discussion with Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE, former UK Chief of Defence Procurement, as he launches his autobiography, Send for Levene.In this discussion, Lord Levene will recount his early career and how he grew a small company into...
The Zinoviev Letter: A Century of Fake News?
27 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary effort, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Bolshevik propaganda organisation, to the British Communist Party in September 1924. Received in...
Introducing the Royal United Services Institute
21 November 2018, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies is one of the UK's leading think-tanks on defence and security, and was established in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington. As a think tank it analyses the latest issued affecting the...
Sea of Azov Crisis: Ukraine and Russia Clash, as do Competing Visions of European Security
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