Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2020
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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.
Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture: Building the Next Generation Royal Air Force – Beyond the Integrated Review
25 January 2021, 13:00The Integrated Review sets out to define the Government’s ambition for the UK’s role in the world and its long-term strategic aims for our...
Douglas Haig Fellowship Lecture: The Tank in World War One – Did Haig Help or Hinder its Development?
29 January 2021, 13:00Major General J.F.C. Fuller, Chief of Staff of the Tank Corps from 1916 to mid-1918 and a key player in its successes, wrote in his memoirs...
The Future of UK Security, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Co-operation with the European Union
04 February 2021, 16:00Post-Brexit, UK police and security agencies were keen to maintain access to SIS II, an EU database with real-time crime alerts, to the...
Launch of the Gender in Conflict and Security Webinar Series - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
08 February 2021, 16:00The war crime few want to talk about: rape is used as a weapon to humiliate, oppress, seize territory, and carry out ethnic cleansing....
Transatlantic Perspectives on Cyber Security: Challenges and Opportunities
16 February 2021, 16:00Cyber security has become a priority issue globally, a fact further underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this wide-ranging discussion,...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Evolving peer threats, new budgetary pressures and national industrial imperatives are fuelling fierce competition. This online conference will examine the key next-generation combat air approaches...
Australia and the UK in the World’s Most Contested Region: A Conversation with Professor Rory Medcalf
22 April 2020, 10:00As the UK seeks to strengthen its global engagement, the Indo-Pacific will be a key region. Within this vast space, the UK will need to find a balance between its engagements – from strategic partnerships with Japan and India, to a mission to engage...
CTF Online Symposium No. 1: The Lebanese Hezbollah Financing Threat in Europe
21 April 2020, 14:30In this webinar, Dr Levitt presented a research briefing on Hezbollah’s financing operations in Europe, as well as the steps being taken by EU member states to tackle these fundraising efforts. Dr. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at...
The Changing Nature of Cyber Attacks
20 April 2020, 9:00Speaker biography: Kevin Brown is Managing Director, BT Security. In this role, he makes sure that BT has the right policies and systems in place to keep the company’s assets – whether physical, logical or information – secure from attack. BT...
Mapping a Pandemic: East Africa and the Horn’s Conflict and Security Challenges in a Time of Pandemic
16 April 2020, 14:00The Covid-19 pandemic is emerging in East Africa and the Horn at a moment when the region is facing crucial conflict and security challenges. While hopes for peace and progress on regional cooperation were ignited by the election of Abiy Ahmed as...
“History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America” Book Launch with Bruno Maçães
15 April 2020, 16:00Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History’s great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US...
Mapping the Pandemic: How Coronavirus is Affecting the Middle East
09 April 2020, 14:00While the pandemic has had the most devastating impact on Iran, coronavirus is affecting the rest of the Middle East as well. At this online event RUSI experts will offer their analysis on how different countries are dealing with the crisis and how...
Mapping a Pandemic: The Geopolitics of Coronavirus
02 April 2020, 14:00The coronavirus pandemic has come at a time when the global liberal order was already grappling with a severe challenge from populist politicians and movements, as well as from a broader backlash against globalisation, borderless trade and the...
Online Briefing with UN Panel of Experts on North Korea: New Trends in North Korean Proliferation Finance
01 April 2020, 12:00In this briefing, Mr. Arnold will provide an update on the panel’s forthcoming report, including new trends in North Korean illicit financing and cyber operations. The UN Panel of Experts on North Korea was set up to monitor the implementation of UN...
RUSI Paper Launch - The Challenge of Change: Acquiring Technologies for Defence in the UK
31 March 2020, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
ACCESS PAPER At a time when the Western world is placing emphasis on the importance of bringing more innovation to defence, this paper identifies seven contextual features that enhance the chances of successful innovations and suggests how these...
POSTPONED: A Conversation with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
25 March 2020, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
Will tomorrow’s wars be fought on the same terms as today's, and how will humanitarians need to adapt? How does the concept of ‘partnered warfare’ help mitigate the humanitarian impacts of modern conflict? Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and...
UK PONI Roundtable: Project SANDSTONE – using open-source methods to expose North Korea’s illicit smuggling networks
20 March 2020, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
North Korea’s continued development of their nuclear and ballistic missile programmes has led to the tightening of sanctions on the country. This includes a near complete ban on its main exports – such as coal, iron, lead and seafood – in an effort...
POSTPONED - RUSI Combat Air Conference 2020
19 March 2020, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
With the UK’s Future Combat Air Strategy set to feature heavily in the upcoming Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review, there are now major efforts underway in NATO to create the next generation of combat air capability.The United...
POSTPONED - Does the Current Strategy to Counter Terrorist Financing Work?
18 March 2020, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Since 9/11, targeting the finances of terrorist actors has been a central element of the global counterterrorism landscape. Indeed, the first public shot fired by George W Bush in his ‘War on Terror’ was a financial measure in the form of Executive...
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective
16 March 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
After the events of World War Two, General Eisenhower commented that there had never before been a war where resistance forces were so closely harnessed to the military effort. Drawing on material from his latest book, Secret Alliances, Dr Insall...
POSTPONED: International Women’s Day 2020 - Women as Agents: A History of Female Intelligencers
11 March 2020, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Traditionally, these stories are predominantly male, a few famous historical figures notwithstanding. It is only very recently that the agency of women is becoming increasingly central to narratives, both real and fictional, as female writers and...
The Biden Administration’s First Steps and the UN
The Biden Presidency: What Role for the UK on Iran?
Episode Ten: Counter Terrorism Financing: Does the Current Global Approach Work?