State Threats
RUSI's work on state threats aims to support the UK and its partners in detecting, understanding attributing and responding to the spectrum of complex state threats currently facing democracies.
RUSI continues its multi-disciplinary work on State Threats by regularly convening experts and government policy-makers to help seek solutions to the rising threat posed by non-military state-based threats.
Our research in this area examines examines the weaponisation of finance as a tool of international statecraft and considers the financial dimension of state threats including the role of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC in international security, and the politicisation and weaponisation of the financial system.