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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.

They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad
14 April 2021, 16:00Sir Peter Westmacott's forty-year career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office straddled the last decade of the Cold War and the age of...

Our Man in Malaysia: The Life and Actions of a North Korean Agent
15 April 2021, 13:00In 2017, a North Korean national named Ri Jong Chol was arrested in Malaysia in connection to the assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport of...

How Integrated are Foreign Affairs and Development in the UK Integrated Review?
26 April 2021, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, Douglas Alexander and Rory Stewart deploy the experience they gained in their previously-held government...

Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
11 May 2021, 16:00After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after the Second World War is rapidly coming to an end. Foreign...

Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History
14 July 2021, 16:00In forensic and compelling detail, Professor Jytte Klausen shows how Islamist terrorism in Europe and North America has been driven, not by...
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...
RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2021: Integrating for Operations Today and Warfighting Tomorrow
02 June 2021, 9:00The British Government published its Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review in March 2021, setting out its ambition for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade. Given the...
Military History Circle
18 February 2005, 0:00Histories of the Hanged: <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = DEFANGHTML_ST1 />Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire Friday 18 February 2005 from 1245 - 1400 The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies would like to ...
Military History Circle
21 January 2005, 0:00Dr John Peaty, Research Analyst, Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency and Private Historian on the subject of 'The First Manhattan Project: Artillery Survey In The Great War'Friday 21 January 2004 from 1245 - 1400. If you would like...
The Tribal Areas of Pakistan: A Haven For Terrorists?
19 January 2005, 0:00Half-Day Conference on 'The Tribal Areas of Pakistan: A Haven For Terrorists?' - 19 January 2005 at 1315 (Buffet Lunch from 1215) The Royal United Services Institute will hold a half-day conference on 19 January on The Tribal Areas of Pakistan: A...
Defence Reform in Serbia and Montenegro
18 January 2005, 0:00His Excellency Dr Prvoslav Davinic, Minister of Defence for Serbia and MontenegroTuesday 18 January 2005 from 1300 - 1400If you would like to take part please inform Jane Davenport, Events Manager, RUSIjanedavenport@rusi.org / 0207 747 2615 1300 (...
US Homeland Security
09 December 2004, 0:00Admiral James Loy is Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Admiral Loy formerly served as the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration until he was nominated by President Bush in October. Click here to listen...
Annual RUSI Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture
09 December 2004, 0:00Click here for the lecture It really doesn’t seem twelve months since I was standing here before you all, speaking about the challenges of changing times. RUSI is, in many ways, a fine example of an organisation that identifies the need to...
Private Military Companies in the Current Global Order
06 December 2004, 0:00Private military companies (PMCs) are increasingly a part of the security landscape. Events in Iraq and Afghanistan have played a significant role in moving the debate over PMCs forward since the Arms to Africa affair in the 1990s. The old notion of...
The Security Intersection: The Paradox of Power in an Age of Terror
01 December 2004, 0:00The South African Institute of International Affairs and theRoyal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies announce the launch of a new book THE SECURITY INTERSECTIONThe Paradox of Power in an Age of Terror by Greg Mills The...
NATO, the Mediterranean and the Middle East: the Successor Generation
29 November 2004, 0:00Read Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo's Keynote Address A RUSI conference co-sponsored by the NATO Division of Public Diplomacy What can NATO offer the Mediterranean and Middle East? What does the region want from NATO? Is NATO...
Libya: Reform or Renewal
25 November 2004, 0:00The Libya: Reform and Renewal conference will take place...
Franco-British Entente Cordiale Conference
19 November 2004, 0:00The Entente Cordiale came in an era of frantic imperial expansion and was initially regarded as just a diplomatic accord to carve up spheres of influence between Britain and France. Yet the document signed by British Foreign Secretary Lord...
International Conflict Prevention and Intervention
10 November 2004, 0:00His Excellency Sir Emyr Jones Parry KCMG United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations Lecture begins at 1300
Energy Security: the Risks & Realities
03 November 2004, 0:00Themes: International Oil Security UK Electricity Security The Threat to Energy Installations The Future of UK Security
NATO Transformation and Challenges
01 November 2004, 0:00General James JonesSupreme Allied Commander EuropeOther resources:THE RDS INTERVIEW: General James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander Europe
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review
Revolutions Of War
Strengthening the UK’s National Resilience: The Tasks Ahead