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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.
Launch of the Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Restricting Foreign Acquisitions for the Sake of National Security
17 July 2020, 11:00In the past few months, an increasing number of Western countries - including Poland, Italy, Sweden and the UK - have announced new...
VJ Day 75 Years On: Reflections on the UK-Japan Relationship
13 August 2020, 10:0015 August 2020 – VJ Day - marks both the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War. The conclusion of years of hardship,...
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Countering CBRN At Home and Abroad
23 September 2020, 9:00The use of Chemical Weapons is a war crime. Yet chemical weapons have been used widely during the Syrian conflict, including the use of nerve agents, while in 2018 Russia conducted a nerve agent...
Modern Deterrence Autumn 2020 Conference
21 October 2020, 9:00RUSI Modern Deterrence conference in partnership with the NATO Public Diplomacy Division.With threats and aggression facing liberal democracies increasing, national security is more important today...
Paper Launch: A Civil Approach to Tackling Criminal Finances
11 June 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
This approach forms part of a long-standing global policy imperative which acknowledges that prison sentences have only a limited impact against criminality in the longer term; using powers which remove wealth from the criminal economy serves to...
RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2019
04 June 2019, 9:00Securing Competitive Advantage 4-5 June 2019 For the 2019 conference presentations, click here Held annually on behalf of the Chief of the General Staff, the RUSI Land Warfare Conference is the UK’s pre-eminent gathering of the land forces...
Reflections on D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
30 May 2019, 18:15RUSI Whitehall
The Normandy Landings that took place on 6 June 1944 involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply enormous. What followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as...
Roundtable on HMG responses to illicit financial flows in South Sudan
30 May 2019, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
International actors are critical partners in ending the movement of illicit financial flows through and out of South Sudan. South Sudan is estimated to have lost $6.8 billion in illicit financial flows since 2012, due in large part to weak state...
Modern Deterrence Conference 2019
29 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
To deter modern warfare techniques and other emerging threats, Western countries need comprehensive defence strategies and plans. Given that hybrid warfare (also known as threshold or grey zone warfare) targets civil society as much as armed forces...
Launch Event: Task Force on the Future of UK Sanctions Policy
28 May 2019, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union it is at a critical juncture of its sanctions policy. While the government has established the necessary architecture to continue to design and implement sanctions after Brexit, it is less clear how...
International Day of the Peacekeepers 17th Annual Conference: The Thin Blue Line
23 May 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
Now in its 17th year, the conference focussed on the challenges and opportunities that face contemporary UN peacekeeping as the Secretary General’s Action For Peacekeeping agenda is endorsed by a growing number of member states at the same time as...
Countering the Financing of North Korea’s WMD Programme: from Sanctions to Crypto
22 May 2019, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Speakers will include Kayla Izenman, Research Analyst RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies and author of ‘Closing the Crypto Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity in Southeast Asia’ and Darya Dolzikova,...
The Inaugural JC Lord Lecture with WO1 Glenn Haughton OBE
22 May 2019, 15:30RUSI Whitehall
The lecture takes its name from RSM John C Lord MVO MBE, known for his exemplary leadership skills. His service in the Second World War included taking part in the seaborne operation to land at Taranto as part of the Allied invasion of Italy, and...
The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East
21 May 2019, 12:15RUSI Whitehall
Professor David Phillips will discuss one of the longest running conundrums in US Middle East policy, that of Washington’s position on the Kurds. His latest book The Great Betrayal: How American Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East (...
Yemen: A Pathway to Reconciliation
16 May 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The Yemeni civil war has now entered its fifth year and shows little sign of abating, with an estimated 12,000 civilian casualties, and a further 24 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. While the Stockholm peace talks in December...
Rising Nuclear Risk, Disarmament and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
16 May 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
In its report the Committee calls on the Government to address grave concerns about the deteriorating state of nuclear diplomacy. For nearly 25 years since the end of the Cold War, the risks posed by nuclear weapons ceased to be a priority amongst...
First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference 2019
15 May 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The Royal Navy appears confident in its utility and its strategic messaging. 2017 was the Year of the Navy, in 2018 the Royal Navy Expanded its Maritime Horizons and this year’s intent is Delivering Global Influence. Is this renewed confidence...
73rd Annual Kermit Roosevelt Lecture
14 May 2019, 14:45RUSI Whitehall
At a time when the United States and Britain are reorienting their armed forces from counter insurgency to peer competition, with a common focus on readiness, modernisation, and the integration of capabilities, General Michael Garrett discusses the...
Western Way of War: The Death of Military Superiority
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Adoption of the Government-Wide System for Project Approvals, Part II: Risks and Hopes for the New System
The Information Domain Threat Environment