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Sarah Lain
Although Russia’s relations with key Western partners remain tense if not deadlocked, there is no shortage of suggestions coming from Moscow for cooperation.
Tags: Russia, EuropeIgor Sutyagin
Russia’s declared number of troops taking part in the biannual Zapad-2017 military exercise, about to start in Belarus, reveals that Moscow is almost certainly being ‘economical with the truth’.
Tags: Russia, EuropeHelena Wood
This paper makes the case for the wider use of financial investigation techniques in the fight against serious and organised crime.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Occasional Papers, AML/CTF, UK, Information, Organised CrimeWilliam Hague's speech at the Munich Security Conference highlighted the importance of cyber-security in international relations, and raised questions of an appropriate international response to the increasingly viable threat
Tags: Domestic Security, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, TechnologyThe recent public questioning of French foreign policy comes at an inconvenient time for President Sarkozy, and has done nothing to reassure the French people of their nation's continued global influence.
Tags: Defence Policy, Europe, Middle East and North AfricaMany claim that the revolutionary arc engulfing the Middle East will challenge terrorist groups and their narrative. But this ignores how groups might exploit the crisis to strengthen their positions and pose a more potent and sophisticated threat to the UK than they do at the moment.
Tags: Terrorism, Europe, Middle East and North AfricaTags: RUSI Journal, Technology
Tags: RUSI Journal, Land Forces, Technology
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