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Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
20 August 2020, 16:00Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent...
Ahead of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly – Can Multilateralism be Rebuilt for a Post-Covid World: A Conversation Between The Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander and Ambassador Elizabeth Cousens
14 September 2020, 16:00This wide-ranging conversation will cover the multilateral response to the Covid- 19 crisis to date and will look ahead to the key themes...
Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Organising Ourselves for the Next Crisis
16 September 2020, 16:00When the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, a fact that had previously not been considered critical became obvious: most Western...
Tom Tugendhat on Reappraising UK Foreign Policy Towards China
22 September 2020, 10:30The coronavirus crisis and the introduction of a new security law in Hong Kong has underlined the need for a better understanding of China'...
An Online Conversation with Two Former Spymasters
22 October 2020, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, General Petraeus and Sir John Sawers will discuss the next big geopolitical and global security...
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
17 February 2021, 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...
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...
RUSI Financial Crime 2.0 Workshop: Money Laundering via Online Businesses
10 May 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
To prevent criminal misuse of these businesses, it is necessary to understand money-laundering risks facing them and develop responses that reflect their non-face-to-face nature and cross-border customer base. This invitation-only workshop is...
Breakfast Briefing: Strategic Autonomy and European Defence
10 May 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
The idea of the European Union achieving its own military capabilities has been in and out of fashion since the organisation has existed. Yet following the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, there has been renewed and...
Framing Competition and Deterrence in US Strategy
09 May 2019, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Senior US defence leaders have in recent years increasingly referred to the return of great power competition and the need to adapt defence strategy to this increasingly salient feature of geopolitics, with the publication of 2018 National Defense...
Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War
08 May 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
When Winston Churchill took over as Secretary of State for War in January 1919, his top priority was the overthrow of the Bolshevik government in Moscow. His greatest military commitment lay in the Arctic Circle where 10,000 British and American...
Sudan and Financial Crime: Assessing the Current State of Affairs
17 April 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The Sentry is composed of financial forensic investigators, policy analysts, and regional experts who follow the dirty money and build investigative cases focusing on the corrupt transnational networks most responsible for Africa’s deadliest...
Western Way of War: Air Power Beyond Tactical Effects
Reassessing the UK’s Muddled Approach to Africa
Twelve Years Since the August War, Georgia Still Faces Russian Aggression