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The Zinoviev Letter: A Century of Fake News?
27 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary effort, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev,...
Send for Levene: A Discussion with Lord Levene
27 November 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In this discussion, Lord Levene will recount his early career and how he grew a small company into a prime contractor to the Ministry of...
The Evolving Role of the Military during non-discretionary National Crises
28 November 2018, 18:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Brigadier Ridge will further reflect on what this means for the nature and construct of military deployments and how this has been...
RUSI Paper Launch – Targeting the Finances of Cybercrime
04 December 2018, 8:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
UK law enforcement agencies already seek to ‘follow the money’ to identify cybercriminals, as well as to confiscate the proceeds of...
Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture and RUSI Christmas Party
11 December 2018, 18:00The Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture is held annually at RUSI, covering key topical defence and security issues. This is followed by the...
Is Space the New Cyber? UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities
16 January 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Conversations about space across the UK government are dominated by the military and industry. Despite broad agreement across other government departments on the importance of space, there seems to...
Missile Defence Conference 2019: Beyond Ballistic Missiles? Missile Defence in an Era of Great Power Competition
13 February 2019, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The purpose of the conference will be to explore the ways in which missile defence programmes will have to adapt in an era where rogue states are not the bete noire of the international order. In...
Prospects for Peace, Development, Security, Democratisation and Stability in Sudan and the Region
26 July 2018, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
As well as being the Imam of the Ansar, a Sufi order, Imam Sadiq Al Mahdi is the leader of the National Umma Party and was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1986 until 1989, when he was deposed in a coup by now President Omar al Bashir, and continues to...
Decoding Dehumanisation: Preventing Dehumanisation through Neuroscience
25 July 2018, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
Based on cutting-edge research across five continents, Beyond Conflict is creating evidence-based tools to better prevent systemic discrimination, reduce conflict, and prevent mass atrocities.RUSI is delighted to host Beyond Conflict for a...
Breakfast Briefing: Thinking the Unthinkable
23 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Executive leadership faces new vulnerabilities. Many leaders privately concede them, but few are willing to talk publicly about them. ‘Unthinkable’ events since 2014 have revealed a new leadership fragility at the highest levels and the pace of...
187th RUSI Annual General Meeting
19 July 2018, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
AGENDA1. The Chairman’s Address and Director-General Update2. Financial Report3. First Resolution“That the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018, as circulated, be taken as read and adopted”.4. Second Resolution“That Messrs BDO LLP...
SOLD OUT: Breakfast Briefing: Reflections on the NATO Summit: What Next?
16 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Please note this event is now sold out. All NATO summits seem to be meeting at times of 'critical choice'. The NATO summit in Brussels on 11-12 July will be no different, but more importantly, it will straddle some near-term and major structural...
The New Russian Empire: A discussion with Dr Agnia Grigas
11 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
In 2016 Dr Agnia Grigas asked how Russia will redraw post-Soviet borders in the wake of Russian expansionism. In Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire Dr Grigas illustrated how —for more than two decades—Moscow has consistently used its compatriots...
The UK Modernising Defence Programme
09 July 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
Throughout 2018, the Ministry of Defence has been undertaking a defence review to match resources to requirements. This supposes that the government understands the range of obligations it has, the sort of operations towards which it might commit UK...
The India-Pakistan Deadlock
09 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
Please click 'Register Now' to book your place - if you are unable to do so, please register your attendance with Sajid Ali via SajidA@rusi.org. Please note, registration is mandatory for this event.Ceasefire violations, militancy, and diplomatic...
Prisoner's Voices in the Liberation Collection
09 July 2018, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
The Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection is a comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets in French on the Second World War, the occupation and the liberation, published during a period of just over two years, from August 1944 to the end of...
Defence, Industry and UK Prosperity: A Report by Philip Dunne MP
09 July 2018, 11:30RUSI Whitehall
The Ministry of Defence's formal obligation to contribute to national prosperity is several years old and the Secretary of state recently asked Philip Dunne MP to prepare an independent report on what the MoD is doing and might do differently in...
Antonio Giustozzi on The Islamic State in Khorasan
05 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious...
Reforming the SARs Regime: Legislative, Regulatory and Technical Challenges
05 July 2018, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The system for reporting suspicious financial activity in the UK is recognised as not fitting the needs of the 21st century. The global standards on which the regime is based are several decades old. The emergence of public-private partnerships for...
Think Tanks in the 21st Century: Engaging Youth and Use of Technology
03 July 2018, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world's oldest independent think tank on international defence and security. Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, RUSI has been providing forward thinking, free discussion and careful reflection on...
Rules for Modernising UK Defence: Enough of the Negativity
03 July 2018, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
The Speech Thank you also to RUSI – to Peter and all the others here who have facilitated this event today. I have, over the last week, thought at length over what I was going to say today. I am enormously grateful to be given the chance by RUSI to...
India and Russia: Ties that Bind
In Context podcast - Episode 4: Kori Schake
Reflections on the First World War Centenary