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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.

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...

Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 14:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Each of the three efforts is aiming to eventually field a family of systems which will work together to deliver future air power effects. However, exactly what form this family of systems will take...
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...
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 screening mechanisms for foreign takeovers of domestic companies. While governments traditionally screen takeovers of...
189th RUSI Annual General Meeting
16 July 2020, 16:00A notice of all business to be transacted at the meeting was posted on the Institute’s website. TO VIEW BIOGRAPHIES, CLICK HERE. TO VIEW FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CLICK HERE.
Whitehall Briefing - Cat and Mouse: North Korean Sanctions Evasion in 2020
16 July 2020, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
Following the release of the March 2020 United Nations Panel of Expert’s report on North Korea, James Byrne and Hamish Macdonald reflect on the country’s ongoing efforts to evade the unilateral and multilateral sanctions regime targeting the country...
The Ministry of Defence Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
15 July 2020, 13:00In his speech, the Minister for the Armed Forces will discussed the role of the Ministry of Defence in mitigating the Covid-19 crisis and how the pandemic will shape the Armed Forces of the future. James Heappey MP was elected as the Conservative...
Paper Launch - By Parity and Presence: Deterring Russia with Conventional Land Forces
14 July 2020, 14:00Access the paper here. Nuclear deterrence is underpinned by absolute consequences. Conventional deterrence functions along a sliding scale from warfighting to persistent competition. RUSI has completed a study of the requirements for UK land...
The US Army and Great Power Competition: A Speech by the US Secretary of the Army
13 July 2020, 16:30The US Army has been radically altering its approach for the last 5 years, shifting from counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations to preparedness for high intensity conflict in an era of Great Power competition. Within this, the...
A New Model for Tackling Cyber-Enabled Fraud
06 July 2020, 12:00Cybercriminals are consistently targeting financial institutions and individuals by carrying out cyber-enabled and cyber-assisted fraud. This type of cybercrime should be high on the agenda for security teams and business leaders within all...
Book Launch - Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
02 July 2020, 15:00Kaszeta was joined by Dr. Caitriona McLeish for an interactive discussion on the book, and explore what this historical review can teach us about managing chemical weapons risks today.Toxic is a dark and chilling story of the invention,...
Mapping a Pandemic: Managing Instability - The Pandemic from the Perspective of Civil Society
25 June 2020, 12:00In fragile and conflict affected environments, governments have struggled to provide healthcare, food security, education and safety for their citizens. With access and trusted relationships across communities, civil society leaders - including...
Gallipoli Memorial Lecture 2020
25 June 2020, 9:00Click here for the text of the speech. His Excellency The Honourable George Brandis QC was appointed High Commissioner for Australia to the United Kingdom in May 2018. Mr Brandis has had a distinguished political career in Australia as a member of...
Africa in Perspective
24 June 2020, 12:00The African Union’s Agenda 2063, sets out seven aspirational commitments in its African development and transformation programme intended to enable Africa to fulfil its potential. However, across sub-Saharan Africa, crime, violent extremism,...
New Methods of Payment and Financial Crime
22 June 2020, 12:00The emergence of new financial services and methods of payment, from fintechs to cryptocurrencies, has brought greater variety and choice to communities. As is inevitable with most innovations, their advantages have not been lost on criminal groups...
Brexit and the UK-US Special Relationship
19 June 2020, 16:00Britain prides itself on its special relationship with the United States. Ties of history, language and culture matter; so, in recent decades, has London’s informal role as a go-between for Washington’s relations with Brussels, Berlin, and Paris....
Illicit Cigarette Consumption in the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland
18 June 2020, 10:00The illicit cigarette trade does not respect borders nor laws, and affects different countries and regions alike around the world. The European Union is no exception. For the past 14 years, KPMG has been studying the illicit cigarette consumption in...
Whitehall Briefing: The New British Army Operating Concept
17 June 2020, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, western governments have been trying to adapt to a challenging new security environment. Persistent instability in the Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, coupled with the return...
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club
Rose Roth, language and youth
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions