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Can National Security be Taught?
30 September 2020, 15:00In 2017, Latvia’s parliament decided that the country should launch a pioneering national security curriculum. Starting in the 2018/2019...
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia on Georgia’s Pro-Western Foreign Policy Agenda, Security Threats and the Challenges Ahead
08 October 2020, 11:00Addressing the key priorities of Georgia’s pro-Western foreign policy agenda, His Excellency Mr Giorgi Gakharia will discuss Georgia’s...
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...
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain
12 November 2020, 16:00As a philosopher-statesman, Haldane’s groundbreaking proposals on defence, education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of...
How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence
17 November 2020, 16:00Intelligence officers discern the truth. They gather information - often contradictory or incomplete - and, with it, they build the most...
Modern Deterrence Autumn 2020 Conference (Rescheduled from Autumn 2020)
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...
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...
POSTPONED: The Security and the North Sea Conference
16 April 2019, 10:00The North Sea is one of Europe’s vital arteries for trade as well as being the location of some key natural resources including food and energy for the countries that border it. In the era of returning state competition its linkages to other...
GIFCT Expert Workshop “Mapping the Jihadist information ecosystem: Towards the 3rd Generation of Disruption Capability”
16 April 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The project, 'Mapping the Jihadist information ecosystem: Towards the 3rd Generation of Disruption Capability', will produce a network map of the traffic between the online platforms and websites jihadists use to construct their information...
The Pathway to Stabilisation in Yemen
11 April 2019, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
The UN has declared the situation in Yemen the world’s largest humanitarian emergency with 22 million people needing lifesaving assistance. The impact on Yemeni society and the country’s fragile infrastructure has been devastating.This panel...
Breakfast Briefing - Whatever happened to Al Qaida?
10 April 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
After the death of Usama bin Ladin in 2011, and the rise of the so-called Islamic State (also known as Daesh) in Iraq and Syria in 2013-14, Al Qaida faded from the headlines. However, Al Qaida aligned groups from Somalia to Syria to South Asia are...
Breakfast Briefing - Negotiating Realistic Restraints on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
05 April 2019, 8:00RUSI Whitehall
The failure of the Hanoi summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to reach agreement has focussed new attention on the future of the diplomatic process between the two, the options for its continuation, and the...
Cyprus and Emerging threats in the Eastern Mediterranean
03 April 2019, 16:00RUSI 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 for promoting peace and stability in the region....
Interception: Deterring Radicalisation During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Western Way of War: Political Risk, the Media and the Military
The Limits of European Power? The Abraham Accords, Their Halting of Israel’s Annexation Plans and the European Response