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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.

UK Defence and Security Policy: The Labour Party’s Vision
26 February 2021, 11:00With the Government’s long-awaited Integrated Review expected to be published shortly and a new funding settlement for the MoD announced...

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...

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...
August Browne: The British-Polish Nigerian Who Took on the Nazis
30 October 2020, 16:001600 GMT / 1100 EST / 1800 EAT Having travelled to Britain from Nigeria in the early part of the 20th century, August Agboola Browne settled down and became a successful Jazz musician in Poland prior to his participation in the struggle against...
Transatlantic Relations on Iran After the US Elections
30 October 2020, 13:30Since the heralding of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by the P5+1 group in 2015, the last four years have witnessed a schism emerge between the United States and Europe over Iran. While the E3 members have maintained...
Building Stronger Societies: Involving Teenagers in National Security
29 October 2020, 16:00With national security threats growing, countries are looking increasingly to teenagers as a resource. Traditional conscription, as practiced in past generations, is mostly neither feasible nor desirable. Instead, a number of countries have...
Reflections on Assessing National Exposure to Proliferation Financing Risk
29 October 2020, 14:00Earlier this summer, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) requested feedback on a proposed amendment to its Recommendation 1. The amendment would require countries and financial institutions to assess their exposure to the risk of facilitating...
The U.S. Election: Foreign and Security Policy Challenges For the Next President
28 October 2020, 16:00The American people will vote on Tuesday 3 November 2020 in order to elect their next President, either giving Republican Donald Trump another four years or handing over the keys of the White House to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. This...
CTF Online Symposium No. 4: Fraud-Enabled Terrorism Financing: A Neglected Dossier
28 October 2020, 14:00Terrorism can be financed through funds collected both unlawfully and lawfully. In recent years, fraud has become a key catalyst fuelling many terrorism financing methods. In this webinar, Professor Nicholas Ryder presents his research briefing that...
Africa in Perspective - Gender Empowerment in Peace and Security
28 October 2020, 12:00In 2000, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 – a turning point in understanding and recognising the role of women and girls in peace and security. The UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda contained ...
Progressive Terrorism Studies Webinar Series – Disrupting Networks of Influence
27 October 2020, 14:00Exploring the roots of Salafi-Jihadi resilience creates an opportunity for policymakers and tech professionals to consider data which can augment attempts to disrupt this movement’s networks online. Communication is a relational activity....
Problems of Geography: Military and Economic Transport Logistics in Russia’s Far East
26 October 2020, 14:00The Russian Far East (RFE) is essential to maintaining Russia’s status as a military and economic power. But to connect up Russia’s vast territory and join the European part of Russia to the RFE, adequate transport infrastructure is critical....
37th International Churchill Conference
23 October 2020, 16:45This conference seeks to explore leadership in times of adversity. We mark the sacrifices of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, 80 years on, and celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.Further details here https...
An Online Conversation with Two Former Spymasters
22 October 2020, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, General Petraeus and Sir John Sawers discussed the next big geopolitical and global security challenges for the 21st century.The webinar will be moderated by Vance Serchuk, Executive Director, KKR Global Institute....
A conversation with H E Fuad Hussein and H E Juma Anad Saadoun Al-Juburi
21 October 2020, 12:00RUSI's Unpacking the MENA programme is delighted to have host a conversation featuring H E Fuad Hussein, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and H E Juma Anad Saadoun Al-Juburi, Iraq’s Defence Minister and focusing on Iraq’s priorities...
Tackling Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indo-Pacific
16 October 2020, 14:00The Indo-Pacific has emerged as a space for great power competition between China and the United States. Besides this wider strategic struggle, however, there are a number of localised security issues that are priorities for regional states....
Dark Money and Democracy: Is There a Way Out?
12 October 2020, 14:30The 2016 US elections, the Brexit referendum, the Scottish independence referendum – time and again allegations of nefarious financial meddling raise a cloud of uncertainty over democratic processes across the world. And as the UK’s recent Russia...
Future Challenges in Economic Crime: A View from the SFO
08 October 2020, 14:00RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies is delighted to welcome back the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Lisa Osofsky, for a discussion of the SFO’s current work and future priorities. Ms Osofsky joined the SFO in August...
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions
On the Quest to Revive the Iran Nuclear Deal
Prime Minister Outlines Vision for International Cooperation