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US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size

In The News, 29 March 2020
Modern Deterrence

“US global leadership won’t just end because they bungled their response to the coronavirus, but I think we will come to find that this was a pivotal point,” said Elisabeth Braw, the director of the Modern Deterrence Project at the Royal United Service Institute in London.

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Elisabeth Braw is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on deterrence against emerging forms... read more

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Revamping Crisis Resilience and Security in the Post-Pandemic World

Other Publications, 18 June 2020

Elisabeth Braw

Reflections and analysis on the 2020 'Revamping Crisis Resilience and Security in the Post-Pandemic World' conference.

Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Other Publications, Resilience

Britain Beyond the Pandemic: A Resilient Legal Framework

Commentary, 7 April 2020

Ruth Smeeth

The legal framework empowering the British government in fighting the current pandemic needs to be made more predictable and robust.

Tags: Modern Deterrence, Coronavirus, UK, Domestic Security, Law and Ethics

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The Coronavirus Epidemic and Panic Buying: Follow the East German Example

Commentary, 23 March 2020

Elisabeth Braw

Of society and resilience: the scarcities of the past, and the panic buying of today.

Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Coronavirus, Germany, UK, Europe

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The NATO Parliamentary Assembly as an Antidote to Public Disengagement from Defence

Commentary, 7 February 2020

Madeleine Moon

NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly is an asset which deserves greater attention

Tags: Modern Deterrence, United States, Civil–Military Relations, NATO, North America, Resilience, Europe

A B-52 Stratofortress deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., lands on the flight line at RAF Fairford, England, March 20, 2019. The B-52s are deployed to support U.S. Strategic Command’s Bomber Task Force (BTF) in Europe. Courtesy of U.S. Air Force

Partnerships are at the Core of Modern Deterrence

Commentary, 15 October 2019

Giedrimas Jeglinskas

How does a state achieve effective deterrence? Lithuania provides an example.

Tags: Modern Deterrence, NATO, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Land Forces, Military Personnel, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Resilience, Europe

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Acting Together: Making Effective Use of Multilateral Deterrence Measures

Commentary, 23 September 2019

Tom Burge

Deterrence has become more complicated; a diplomat reflects on the challenges.

Tags: Modern Deterrence

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Modern Deterrence: Preparing for the Age of Grey-Zone Warfare

RUSI Newsbrief, 5 November 2018

Elisabeth Braw

Modern deterrence is concerned with how countries employ their resilience potential to deter today’s hybrid threats, especially through the involvement of the private sector and civil society. New approaches will likely build on the practices already developed by countries exhibiting a strategy of ‘total defence’.

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Sweden’s Total Defence 2020 Exercise: Presentation of Preliminary Outcomes

Events, 25 August 2020

An exclusive briefing by the leaders and chief evaluators of Sweden’s Total Defence 2020 exercise.

Tags: Modern Deterrence

Launch of the Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Restricting Foreign Acquisitions for the Sake of National Security

Events, 17 July 2020

To launch the Building Stronger Societies webinar series, Professor V. Sumantran, Chairman of Celeris Technologies and Elisabeth Braw, Senior Research Fellow in Modern Deterrence, RUSI, will discuss...

Tags: Modern Deterrence