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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.
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...
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...
Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 16:00Europeans 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...
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...
Countering CBRN At Home and Abroad
23 September 2020, 9:00ACCESS NOWThe use of Chemical Weapons is a war crime. Yet chemical weapons have been used widely during the Syrian conflict, including the use of nerve agents, while in 2018 Russia conducted a nerve agent attack on British soil. Although there has...
US Elections and International Kleptocracy: What to Watch for
22 September 2020, 16:00This November, US citizens will choose the President who will lead the country during the next four years. As always, this American election is a global affair with far-reaching implications for other countries. This is especially so when it comes...
Bridging the Innovation Gap: How to Improve Cooperation Between Tech Startups and the National Security Community
22 September 2020, 15:00Despite efforts to bridge it, the gap between innovative tech startups and the national security community remains an enormous challenge for Western countries.It’s an especially serious issue as strategic competitors such as China can much more...
Progressive Terrorism Studies Webinar Series – Locating Meaning in Salafi Jihadi Content
22 September 2020, 14:00The research presented by Dr Ali Fisher and Dr Nico Prucha in this session is a synthesis of three studies which have respectively examined: the documents shared in the ‘Caliphate Library’ Telegram channel, a 300,000-page archive of Salafi-Jihadi...
Tom Tugendhat on Reappraising UK Foreign Policy Towards China
22 September 2020, 10:30The coronavirus crisis and the introduction of a new security law in Hong Kong has underlined the need for a better understanding of China's place in the world and an urgent reappraisal of the UK-China bilateral relationship. In his speech, Tom...
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement