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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.
Tom Tugendhat on Defending the Rules
29 May 2018, 11:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In his address, Mr Tugendhat will discuss Britain’s place in the world and his vision for the UK’s foreign policy priorities post-Brexit....
Nuclear Deterrence and Franco-British Cooperation: From the Second World War to Lancaster House
04 June 2018, 18:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
Hosted throughout April and May at the Maison Française d'Oxford and developed by the Military Applications Division of the French Atomic...
Prime Minister Erna Solberg on the Security Policy Challenges Facing Norway and Europe today
06 June 2018, 14:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In her address, Prime Minister Solberg will reflect on some of the key security policy challenges facing Norway and Europe today, including...
Nia Griffith on Labour’s Defence Policy
25 June 2018, 11:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In her lecture, Nia will discuss what defence policy would look like under the next Labour Government, in the context of the work being...
The Future of the Internet
28 June 2018, 9:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The importance of the Internet continues to grow. The emergence of social media has placed the Internet at the centre of social life and...
Missile Defence Conference 2018
30 May 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The 18th annual Conference in this series is very timely, with Missile Defence coming to the forefront of policymakers minds. The conference will address the North Korean nuclear threat and how it...
UK PONI Annual Conference 2018
07 June 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
This event is now full, to have your name added to the waiting list please email sabrinad@rusi.org The 2018 Annual Conference will gather established and emerging experts from academia, industry,...
RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2018
19 June 2018, 9:00This year's conference will be held on 19-20 June at Church House in Westminster.Further details of the RUSI Land Warfare Conferences are available at RUSI.org/LandwarfareFor sponsorship...
Keir Starmer on the Implications of Brexit
17 November 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In his lecture, Starmer considered the wide ranging policy implications for the United Kingdom of leaving the European Union. Biography The Rt Hon Keir Starmer KCB QC MP has served since 2015 as the Labour Member of Parliament for Holborn and St...
UK PONI: The North Korea Nuclear Challenge
15 November 2017, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
North Korea's nuclear and missile programme has dominated global headlines for the past year: from the first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests and a likely thermonuclear test, to inflammatory exchanges of rhetoric with the United...
Global Terrorism Index Launch 2017
15 November 2017, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
It has never been a more critical time to examine the drivers of terrorism. Terrorism threatens two-thirds of all countries in the world. The human and financial cost is immense.Now in its fifth year, the index is the world's leading metric for...
John Garnett Lecture 2017: Leadership at the Strategic Level - Simple but Not Easy
14 November 2017, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
The annual John Garnett Lecture honours the legacy of Professor John Garnett as the first academic in the field of Strategic Studies worldwide. Professor Garnett pioneered Strategic Studies as an academic field at the University of Aberystwyth, the...
RUSI Paper Launch – Closing the Gap: Assessing Responses to Terrorist-Related Kidnap-for-Ransom
10 November 2017, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Governments continue to be concerned about kidnapping as a source of terrorist finance. A host of international commitments, underpinned by UN Security Council Resolutions and domestic laws, forbids the commercial resolution of terrorist-related...
British Foreign Policy After Brexit: An Independent Voice
10 November 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
The authors will discuss how Britain’s global role and influence can be enhanced rather than diminished post-Brexit, with a diplomatic, security, development and trade agenda based on hard-headed realism, including a review of budgetary priorities....
POSTPONED Rogue Trading: Why Illicit and Illegal Trading is a Major Security Issue
10 November 2017, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
Many people who consider themselves law-abiding citizens do not see a problem with buying things that are traded illicitly, from pirated intellectual property to counterfeit fashion goods. The illicit trade in counterfeit and smuggled goods is...
Book Launch: Power in Modern Russia
09 November 2017, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Given the Russian leadership's concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the Russian official and expert community often use the term 'mobilisation' to describe the measures that Moscow is increasingly resorting to in order to...
Sanctions 2018: Sanctions in an Era of Political Uncertainty
08 November 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
The event will explore how political uncertainties may impact sanctions policy, how this policy misalignment may challenge the private sector, and how the sanctions landscape might evolve in 2018 amid new, emerging security threats and geopolitical...
Staging the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Conflict
08 November 2017, 18:00RUSI, the Atlantic Council and Central Saint Martins present an immersive event in which creatives, AI experts and military and policymakers will engage in open conversation about the challenges, opportunities, and realities of AI over the next...
Remembering “The Unremembered”: the forgotten workers of the First World War
07 November 2017, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
These men supplied the army with weapons and ammunition, food and fodder, water and fuel. They built and maintained roads and railways. Little is known about these men whose courage and contribution were vital to the war effort, but who never held...
Red Famine - Stalin’s War on Ukraine
06 November 2017, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine begins in 1917, with the Ukrainian revolution and the Ukrainian national movement that challenged Bolshevik rule. It ends in the present, with a discussion of the ongoing politics of memory in Ukraine. Red Famine...
Iran's role in Regional and Global Security - The view from Tehran and London
30 October 2017, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
Despite the hopes and expectations, more than two years after the announcement of the Iran deal in July 2015 tensions between the West and Iran remain high and, especially over the past few months, the risk that the deal will fail to translate into...
Armageddon & Paranoia with Sir Rodric Braithwaite
25 October 2017, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature, dutiful military men planned to use the bomb in war, politicians contemplated an intolerable decision. Patriotic citizens acquiesced in the idea that their...
What Next in Syria?
25 October 2017, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Syria is the defining humanitarian crisis of our time with 400,000 Syrians killed and 10 million people - half of all Syrians - driven from their homes. Recent developments in conflict dynamics in Syria have contributed to a reduction of violence in...
India’s Ambiguity and the Chinese Threat
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Call for Pragmatism
UN Peacekeeping Cooperation With Regional Organisations: Time for a Frank Debate