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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
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
Helena Wood
This Occasional Paper looks at the origins of the UK’s non-conviction-based confiscation regime, including the Unexplained Wealth Order, and evaluates the experience of other jurisdictions to consider whether the UK can learn lessons from their deployment of the powers
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers, UK
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
Sam Dudin
There are flaws on both sides of the debate over the future of the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Tags: Equipment and Acquisitions, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Trident, UK, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Defence, Europe
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
Brian Holden Reid
Brian Holden Reid reviews Military Historian: My Part in the Birth and Development of War Studies, 1966–2016, by Brian Bond.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK, History, Europe
Justin Bronk
Justin Bronk reviews Modern Chinese Warplanes: Chinese Air Force – Combat Aircraft and Units, by Andreas Rupprecht.
Tags: Aerospace, China, RUSI Journal, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Pacific
Justin Bronk, RUSI's Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology reflects on the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, established on 1 April 1918.
Aerospace, Military Sciences
The successful and spectacular inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy this week not only captured public imaginations with its ground-breaking double booster recovery and quirky payload, but also...
Aerospace, Air Power and Technology, United States, National Security Studies
Alexandra Stickings discusses the prospects for international space security in the year ahead.
Aerospace
Two new RUSI reports suggest Western military efforts to eliminate ISIS from the Middle East may result only in the Balkanisation of the region. Instead, the best hope of countering the extremist...
Aerospace, Air Power and Technology, Turkey, United States, US Defence Policy, Iran, The Gulf Region, Iraq, Russia, Counterinsurgency, Syria, Terrorism, Defence Policy, UK, Global Security Issues, Land Forces, UK Defence, Europe, Middle East and North Africa
A panel discussion to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Battle for Normandy.
Tags: United States, UK, History, Europe
This annual conference, jointly organised by the United Nations Association – UK, UNA-Westminster and RUSI, is the UK’s most authoritative public review of UN peacekeeping activities.
Tags: Military Sciences
This conference will seek to re-examine what the optimal survivability mix might look like in the late 2020s, 2030s, in light of current trends of both combat air systems design and emerging...
Tags: Air Power Conference 2016: Inspiration and Innovation, Military Sciences
Hong Kong: So What? Now What? In the Future What?
Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi on the Iran Nuclear Deal
WhatsApp Hack Calls into Question Government Use of Commercial Spyware