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Emil Dall
With Brexit and the transition period over, the UK has formally embarked on its independent sanctions regime. What work has been completed so far and what remains to be done?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Europe
James Sullivan
The UK government must learn quickly from its policy decisions around its 5G networks, and start grappling much earlier with risks posed by other emerging technologies.
Tags: Cyber Security, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Technology
Anton Moiseienko
Unexplained wealth orders are now being used to tackle criminal wealth in the UK, but they are more complicated and less powerful in practice than in popular imagination.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
Tony Comer
Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence.
Tags: UK, History, Intelligence
Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Darya Dolzikova and Tom Plant
UK and US policy towards Iran has diverged substantially in recent years, and both countries need to work hard to restore their partnership. The UK can do its part through a re-energised agenda on the Iran nuclear file, and towards Middle Eastern security more broadly.
Tags: Iranian Nuclear Pathways, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran, UK
Peter Roberts
With the arrival of each new US president, the incumbent UK prime minster hopes to revitalise the UK–US ‘special relationship’ in defence and security. It has largely been missing in action since the heady days of the Reagan–Thatcher relationship.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UK
Sidharth Kaushal
The recent announcement that all US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will carry hypersonic weapons for conventional prompt strike missions raises important questions regarding both the CONOPS guiding conventional prompt strike and the specific value of hypersonics for this mission set
Tags: Martial Power Programme, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Maritime Forces
Anjuli Shere and Miranda Melcher
The power and independence of the Information Commissioner’s Office appear to have been overstated. Downing Street has built-in oversight of funds and coronavirus data is not being protected.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Coronavirus, UK, Information
Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds
The UK has two options for modernising its armour: developing a Challenger 3 or procuring Leopard 2. The latter is an assured capability that will likely prove cheaper over the life of the programme. The former is risky but offers the UK an opportunity to develop valuable intellectual property.
Tags: Military Sciences, RUSI Newsbrief, Equipment and Acquisitions, UK
This roundtable will discuss the recent U.S. announcement to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and implications this may have for the future of deterrence and arms...
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, UK, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
The conference, the first of its kind, featured senior executives and government officials in charge of total defence and civil protection. It aimed to identify practical steps that can be taken to...
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Defence Policy
RUSI and The Atlantic Council together with the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce are holding a one-day conference in London to look at current developments in Ukraine, and their implications for...
Tags: RUSI International, Ukraine, UK, Global Security Issues
International Women’s Day: The Tasks Ahead
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism