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Rethinking CTF Strategy: From Stopping Terrorist Financing to Using Finance to Stop Terrorists
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Tom Keatinge
Rather than focusing on the near-impossible task of stopping terrorist financing, policy-makers should instead focus on using financial intelligence to stop terrorists.
AML/CTF, Information, Intelligence, Terrorism
The Myth of Special German Business Ties with Russia
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Marcus Felsner
The assumption that the EU is hamstrung in its dealings with Moscow because German business is beholden to Russian companies is false. There is no special German–Russian business link.

Putin’s Russia: Concocting an Ideology to Justify an Estrangement
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Jonathan Eyal
President Putin’s rush to engage with Orthodox Christianity has more to do with politics than piety as he emphasises the differences between Russia and the rest of Europe.
Global Security Issues, History
Tehran’s Bittersweet Friendship with Moscow
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Despite closer military and economic ties between Russia and Iran, Tehran remains wary of Moscow.

Re-examining the Lessons of the Libya Intervention
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Sarah Brockmeier
Only a detailed dissection of the failures in decision-making during the Libyan intervention will stop the same mistakes being made again.
United Nations, NATO, International Institutions, UK Defence
Yemen: Militias Vying for Control
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Baraa Shiban
Al-Qa’ida and Houthi rebels compete to fill the vacuum created by the absence of a functioning central government in Yemen.
Al-Qa'ida
Europe’s ‘Principled Pragmatism’ on the South China Sea
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Theresa Fallon
As China flexes its muscles in the South China Sea, the EU is trying to balance supporting the rule of law with its need to maintain good relations with Beijing.
Maritime Forces
Indonesia and the South China Sea
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016John McBeth
Will Indonesia’s aspirations to become a regional maritime power set it on a collision course with China?
Global Security Issues, Maritime Forces
The Real Reasons for Afghan Migration
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Dermot Rooney
Afghans are not only forced from their homelands by war and tribal conflict, competition for resources also plays a large part.
NATO, The War on Terror, Al-Qa'ida, Global Security Issues
Nuclear Weapons on Trial: The Marshall Islands Versus the United Kingdom
RUSI Newsbrief, May 2016Emil Dall
The tiny Marshall Islands goes to the International Court of Justice to compel nuclear weapon states to commit to disarmament.
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions
On the Quest to Revive the Iran Nuclear Deal
Prime Minister Outlines Vision for International Cooperation