Professor Malcolm Chalmers is Deputy Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). His research is focused on UK... read more
Charles Parton
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s attempt at introducing a Fugitive Offenders Ordinance has harmed the interests of Hong Kong and China; it may also harm their relations with foreign countries.
Tags: China, RUSI International, Asia, Global Security Issues, Law and Ethics, Pacific
Anton Moiseienko and Kayla Izenman
This Occasional Paper discusses the forms that corruption and fraud take in four UK sectors: the financial sector; construction; the National Health Service; and local government. At present, there are knowledge gaps on this subject that stakeholders would do well to address.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Occasional Papers, UK, Information, Securing Britain, Financial Crime 2.0, National Security
Michael Stephens
Despite Daesh’s military defeat there remains a significant clash between the US and Turkey about Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria. Should Washington continue to support the Kurds?
Tags: Turkey, United States, RUSI Newsbrief, Iraq, Counterinsurgency, Syria, Global Security Issues
Charles Parton
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s attempt at introducing a Fugitive Offenders Ordinance has harmed the interests of Hong Kong and China; it may also harm their relations with foreign countries.
Tags: China, RUSI International, Asia, Global Security Issues, Law and Ethics, Pacific
Tom Keatinge
The UK Home Secretary’s proscription announcement raised expectations, but those that cheered are likely to be disappointed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK Counter-terrorism, Tackling Extremism, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Lebanon, UK, Securing Britain, Terrorism
'Sir Humphrey'
President Trump will be greeted with a torrent of doom-laden criticism when he arrives in the UK on 3 June. Some of this criticism is just wrong, while some simply misses the critical point of this relationship.
Tags: United States, UK
Michael Stephens
Despite Daesh’s military defeat there remains a significant clash between the US and Turkey about Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria. Should Washington continue to support the Kurds?
Tags: Turkey, United States, RUSI Newsbrief, Iraq, Counterinsurgency, Syria, Global Security Issues
Hew Strachan
On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, RUSI and YouGov have conducted a special opinion poll to assess current public attitudes to the event. The poll indicates that only half of Britain knows the significance of D-Day, a source of irony amid today’s polarised politics, says Sir Hew Strachan.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, UK, History
Tom Keatinge, Florence Keen and Kayla Izenman
Efforts to prevent fundraising for extremist organisations tend to overlook the characteristics of right-wing movements.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Journal, UK Counter-terrorism, AML/CTF, Tackling Extremism, UK, Domestic Security, Terrorism, Europe
Raffaello Pantucci and Kamal Alam talk about the recent election victory by Imran Khan in Pakistan.
Pakistan, International Security Studies, Global Security Issues, Central and South Asia
Director-General Dr Karin von Hippel discusses the first year of the Trump Presidency.
United States, US Defence Policy, Global Security Issues
Iran, International Security Studies, Global Security Issues, Middle East and North Africa
Last week RUSI Director-General, Dr Karin von Hippel, and Deputy Director-General, Professor Malcolm Chalmers, attended the Munich Security Conference.
Global Security Issues
Researchers at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with RUSI, are conducting a survey among foreign policy and security elites in the United Kingdom. Members of RUSI and its extended network...
UK, Global Security Issues, International Institutions
On 19 January Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former UK Foreign Secretary, and Dr Igor Ivanov, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, spoke at RUSI’s first Russia- UK bilateral on...
International Security Studies, Russia, UK, Global Security Issues
A panel discussion to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Battle for Normandy.
Tags: United States, UK, History, Europe
In a paper to be launched on 20 February Charles Parton will argue that in-depth research and debate on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in the UK are long overdue.
Tags: China, UK
A lecture by John Hussey OBE MA commemorating the life of Field Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde and the forces he commanded
Tags: UK, History
Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Hong Kong: So What? Now What? In the Future What?
WhatsApp Hack Calls into Question Government Use of Commercial Spyware