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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.

They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad
14 April 2021, 16:00Sir Peter Westmacott's forty-year career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office straddled the last decade of the Cold War and the age of...

Our Man in Malaysia: The Life and Actions of a North Korean Agent
15 April 2021, 13:00In 2017, a North Korean national named Ri Jong Chol was arrested in Malaysia in connection to the assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport of...

How Integrated are Foreign Affairs and Development in the UK Integrated Review?
26 April 2021, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, Douglas Alexander and Rory Stewart deploy the experience they gained in their previously-held government...

Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
11 May 2021, 16:00After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after the Second World War is rapidly coming to an end. Foreign...

Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History
14 July 2021, 16:00In forensic and compelling detail, Professor Jytte Klausen shows how Islamist terrorism in Europe and North America has been driven, not by...
Precision Strike in 21st Century Multidomain Operations
13 May 2021, 12:00The ‘democratisation’ of access to long-range precision strike assets once thought to be components of an exclusively Western revolution in military affairs will have important ramifications for the...
RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2021: Integrating for Operations Today and Warfighting Tomorrow
02 June 2021, 9:00The British Government published its Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review in March 2021, setting out its ambition for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade. Given the...
The Evolution Of Transtlantic Defence Industry, 2005-2025
26 October 2004, 23:00RUSI-BABI Conference 2004 The conference will incorporate discussion on the following areas: • Future British Defence Industrial Strategy• The US Government View of the Required Future Structure of the American Defence Industrial Base• Industry...
Leadership, Culture and Performance
18 October 2004, 23:00The Third RUSI/MTC AustralAsia Performance Management SymposiumWith the Defence Procurement Agency, UKKeynote Address: Sir Kevin Tebbitt (Permanent Undersecretary, UK Ministry of Defence)The last decade has witnessed the rapid global growth of...
RUSI Defence Industry Symposium 2004
12 October 2004, 23:00The aim of this event is to bring together a strong gathering of people who have a real interest in the key defence industrial issues that are active today. This event will be a short, sharp look at four specific areas of interest to the defence...
Democracy, Security and the Rule of Law in Latin America
30 September 2004, 23:00Lunch at 1200Discussion Panel at 1230 Dr Richard Millett, Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, USA Roberto EspindolaDeputy Director, Centre for European Studies, University of Bradford Dr Eduardo Vallarino ArjonaFormer Presidencial...
International Admiral Sir John Fisher Conference
28 September 2004, 23:00A conference marking the centenary of Jacky Fisher's accession to the post of First Sea Lord Speakers include: Adm Sir Jonathon Band Dr John Brooks Adm Sir Ian Forbes (tbc) Cdre James Goldrick RAN Dr Eric Grove Prof Holger Herwig Prof...
Exploiting Information for Military Effect: C4ISTAR in Networked Warfare
26 September 2004, 23:00On C4ISTARwww.rusi.org/C4ISTAR On Transformationwww.rusi.org/transformation RUSI Military Sciences Departmentwww.rusi.org/militarysciences The 2004 RUSI Malvern C4ISTAR delivered up-to-date briefings on the critical issues relating to the use...
Security in Iraq
22 September 2004, 23:00Sir Jeremy Greenstock GCMG Formerly, UK Special Representative for Iraq Refreshments at 1700 Lecture at 1730
Communications Interoperability in a Crisis
20 September 2004, 23:00To deliver the emergency response expected by the public and demanded by the government a fully interoperable communciations system for the three blue-light services is vital. Some suggest that the only way to achieve this is by making everyone...
Identity and Security: The Issues
19 September 2004, 23:00There is a general consensus that a compulsory ID card scheme within the UK has the potential to deliver real benefits. Areas where significant contributions are expected include the tackling organised crime, terrorism, illegal working and illegal...
Technical Development and Effects Based Operations
16 September 2004, 23:00Lunch at 1215 Lecture at 1300 Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2004 Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge KCB CBE ADC RAF Commander-in-Chief, Headquarters Strike Command Royal Air Force Please email Sabrina Downey if you would like to attend the...
The Silent Alliance - 300 Years of Anglo-German Co-operation
06 September 2004, 23:00In association with the British-German Officers’ Association, the British Army’s Strategic & Combat Studies Institute and the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim.The aim...
Lunch With The Chief of Defence Intelligence
26 July 2004, 23:00<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />The Chief of Defence Intelligence, Lieutenant General Andrew Ridgway will speak at a lunch to the Dubai Society, which is open to members of RUSI. General Ridgway is...
The West and Islam: Objectives, Policies and Peace Initiatives
26 July 2004, 23:00Jointly organised by the Royal United Services Institute and the Institute for the Study of Indo-Pakistan Relations, University of Leicester.The debate on the supposed inevitability of a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Islam and the West has gained...
Current Issues in Humanitarian Law and Military Ethics
05 July 2004, 23:00This conference will examine contemporary Humanitarian Law including issues surrounding the use of force in international relations, the politics of the international legal system and asymmetric warfare and humanitarian law. It will also discuss...
Emergency Planning, Security & Business Continuity
30 June 2004, 23:00One of the most important factors that has arisen since 9/11 and more recent attacks, such as Madrid, is the fact that due to living in an interdependent, highly connected and technology dependent, but socially and politically open society, we are...
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review
Revolutions Of War
Strengthening the UK’s National Resilience: The Tasks Ahead