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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...
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia on Georgia’s Pro-Western Foreign Policy Agenda, Security Threats and the Challenges Ahead
08 October 2020, 11:00Addressing the key priorities of Georgia’s pro-Western foreign policy agenda, His Excellency Mr Giorgi Gakharia discusses Georgia’s progress and challenges in its path to European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Twelve years on since the Russian-...
US Election 2020: What's in Store for Sanctions?
06 October 2020, 14:00Whether it is the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, expanding economic pressure on Venezuela, responding to political developments in Hong Kong, or disagreements with the International Criminal Court, Washington's favoured foreign policy tool...
Book Launch - The Radical’s Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back
05 October 2020, 15:00How and why do people become Neo-Nazis? How does it feel to be one? What makes one leave the movement? What is it like to be a former member? These issues are examined in detail in this important book. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 German...
Predicting Environmental Disasters
05 October 2020, 15:00Though CO2 emissions decreased somewhat as a result of coronavirus lockdowns, climate change remains a critical issue. Indeed, environmental disasters are continuing to wreak havoc around the world. Africa, Asia and the Middle East are plagued by an...
How effective are P/CVE mentorship programmes?
02 October 2020, 14:00The fourth webinar in this series will provide insights into the role mentorship interventions play in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Prevention is a vital pillar of counterterrorism (CT) strategies across the globe. Yet...
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and the Risk of Regional War
02 October 2020, 14:00The fighting that has broken out around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is some of the most serious since the war that raged across the region in the early 1990s. Following the ceasefire of 1994, Nagorno-Karabakh and seven other occupied...
Can National Security be Taught?
30 September 2020, 15:00In 2017, Latvia’s parliament decided that the country should launch a pioneering national security curriculum. Starting in the 2018/2019 academic year, the curriculum has been rolled out at the country’s secondary schools; by 2025, all schools will...
Paper Launch - Decision Points: Rationalising the Armed Forces of European Medium Powers
30 September 2020, 14:00ACCESS THE PAPER The return of great power competition makes hard power critical to ensuring national security. Technological advances and economic constraints, however, are making it more expensive and complex to field credible military...
Tech Startups and National Security: Concrete Steps for Better Collaboration
29 September 2020, 15:00With the West’s strategic competitors now catching up and sometimes surpassing Western technological capabilities, the innovation gap is now an urgent issue. At this event, Alex Fox (Managing Partner, UK National Security Strategic Investment Fund...
Rethinking UK Security Policy – Inaugural Event for Rebalancing Expertise in Defence and Security
29 September 2020, 13:00This discussion focuses on considering UK security policy – both domestic and international - and its role in developing and improving diversity and inclusion. There is often insufficient diversity in the voices contributing to important...
International Security in Transformation
28 September 2020, 16:00At a time of such far-reaching changes, the RUSI International Security Studies research group is launching the International Security in Transformation initiative to explore the key developments reshaping security around the world. The...
Corruption and Finance in the UK: A Reality Check
25 September 2020, 13:15Just four years after David Cameron’s vow to drive out corruption, the UK remains a destination of choice for money launderers across the globe. The Russia Report raised valid questions about the UK’s seemingly lax anti-corruption and illicit...
Africa in Perspective - Spotlight on West Africa
24 September 2020, 12:00The event will consider measures to tackle the root causes of economic underdevelopment, climate change, insecurity and the ongoing violent conflicts between the state and non-state actors. Particular attention will be given to initiatives to...
Ansar al Sunna: local trajectories of violent extremism in Kwale County, Kenya
24 September 2020, 9:00Kwale County on Kenya’s south coast has experienced frequent, if sporadic and low-level, extremist violence over the last decade. Much of this has been interpreted by the media as a three-way battle for supremacy between al Shabaab loyalists,...
CTF Online Symposium No. 3: Financial Intelligence in the Age of Lone Actor Terrorism
23 September 2020, 15:00CTF Online Symposium No. 4: Find out moreLone actor and small cell terrorists carry-out undetectably simple attacks without being directed or funded by larger organisations. In its current form, is the global architecture aimed at countering the...
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