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The UK’s Integrated Review Has Restarted: Are Key Questions and Assumptions Still Valid?
Commentary, 3 July 2020
Peter Roberts
The UK’s review of security, defence, development and foreign policy, halted by the health emergency, is now restarting. But not from where it stopped, for both outputs and inputs need to be reconsidered.
Tags: Military Sciences, Defence Policy, UK, National Security
The United Nations Charter: 75 Years On
Commentary, 1 July 2020
Peter Marshall
The UN Charter is no run-of-the-mill affair. It is a universal covenant, born of untold suffering and sorrow. As the only veteran of the Second World War still in active diplomatic circulation, Sir Peter Marshall reflects on the UN’s founding document, and its enduring relevance.
Tags: United Nations, UK, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Europe
Speaking Truth to Power: The Problem with Prime Minister Johnson’s New National Security Adviser
Commentary, 30 June 2020
Peter Ricketts
As a new national security adviser is appointed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK’s first NSA reflects on the duties and burdens of the job.
Tags: UK, National Security
Deployment Options for the Future Royal Navy’s Long-Range Land-Attack Fires
RUSI Journal, 29 June 2020
Ben Wan Beng Ho
A new long-range land-attack capability could be valuable for the Royal Navy.
Tags: Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Policy, UK, Maritime Forces, UK Defence, Europe
Season Two: The Alphabet Soup
Multimedia, 22 June 2020
LLPs, SLPs, UBOs… In this episode, host Tom Keatinge is joined by Graham Barrow of the ‘Dark Money Files’ to examine why these acronyms always pop up in financial crime scandals, often with the UK at the center of them.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Europe
Season Two Trailer: High Risk Thinking
Multimedia, 19 June 2020
Isabella Chase, your host from Season 1, talks to CFCS director, Tom Keatinge about the thinking behind this season’s ‘high risk’ concept and what listeners can expect – from the people, places, commodities and structures in world of financial crime that will be discussed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, EuropePages
The UK’s Integrated Review Has Restarted: Are Key Questions and Assumptions Still Valid?
Commentary, 3 July 2020Peter Roberts
The UK’s review of security, defence, development and foreign policy, halted by the health emergency, is now restarting. But not from where it stopped, for both outputs and inputs need to be reconsidered.
Military Sciences, Defence Policy, UK, National Security
The United Nations Charter: 75 Years On
Commentary, 1 July 2020Peter Marshall
The UN Charter is no run-of-the-mill affair. It is a universal covenant, born of untold suffering and sorrow. As the only veteran of the Second World War still in active diplomatic circulation, Sir Peter Marshall reflects on the UN’s founding document, and its enduring relevance.
United Nations, UK, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Europe
Speaking Truth to Power: The Problem with Prime Minister Johnson’s New National Security Adviser
Commentary, 30 June 2020Peter Ricketts
As a new national security adviser is appointed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK’s first NSA reflects on the duties and burdens of the job.
UK, National Security
Farewell Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Welcome Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Commentary, 16 June 2020Malcolm Chalmers
The UK government has decided to merge the Department for International Development with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. RUSI’s Deputy Director-General analyses what this means for the UK’s future diplomacy and aid policies.
Global Strategy and Commitments, UK, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, UK Defence, Europe
Financial Crime and Brexit: Can We Agree on Nothing?
Commentary, 11 June 2020Tom Keatinge
In Brexit negotiations, even the response to financial crime is an area of dispute.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Brexit, European Union, UKPages
Season Two: The Alphabet Soup
Multimedia, 22 June 2020LLPs, SLPs, UBOs… In this episode, host Tom Keatinge is joined by Graham Barrow of the ‘Dark Money Files’ to examine why these acronyms always pop up in financial crime scandals, often with the UK at...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Europe
Season Two Trailer: High Risk Thinking
Multimedia, 19 June 2020Isabella Chase, your host from Season 1, talks to CFCS director, Tom Keatinge about the thinking behind this season’s ‘high risk’ concept and what listeners can expect – from the people, places,...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Europe
Russian and Chinese Air Defences
Multimedia, 1 May 2020Justin Bronk, Research Fellow at RUSI outlines the current state of Russian and Chinese air defence capabilities.
Tags: Adversarial Studies, Aerospace, Russia, Military Sciences, UK, Profession of Arms, Technology
The Challenge of Change: Acquiring Technologies for Defence in the UK
Multimedia, 7 April 2020Peggy Hollinger, International Business Editor at the Financial Times discusses a new RUSI paper authored by Trevor Taylor and John Louth. The paper suggests that the UK needs a speedier defence...
Tags: Armed Forces, Defence Spending, Defence, Industries and Society, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Policy, UK, UK Defence, Europe
Episode 10: Leaks, Links and Brexit
Multimedia, 29 January 2020In this episode, host Isabella Chase is joined by guests to discuss the most recent money laundering leaks, UK-linked financial crime cases, and the impact that Brexit will have on the financial...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, EuropePages
Deployment Options for the Future Royal Navy’s Long-Range Land-Attack Fires
RUSI Journal, 29 June 2020Ben Wan Beng Ho
A new long-range land-attack capability could be valuable for the Royal Navy.
RUSI Journal, Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Policy, UK, Maritime Forces, UK Defence, Europe
How Threat Actors are Manipulating the British Information Environment
RUSI Journal, 17 June 2020Daniel Dobrowolski David V Gioe and Alicia Wanless
The UK needs to update its regulatory approach to respond to emerging threats in the information environment.
Cyber, RUSI Journal, UK, Information, Technology, Europe
Assessing the UK–China Commercial Relationship
RUSI Newsbrief, 12 June 2020Andrew Cainey and Veerle Nouwens
As the UK formulates its post-Brexit relationship with China, one key policy interest is the possibility of stronger commercial ties. However, the benefits of doing business with China are less...
China, RUSI Newsbrief, UK
Performing Information Manoeuvre Through Persistent Engagement
Occasional Papers, 11 June 2020Nick Reynolds
This Occasional Paper analyses the contemporary information domain and its consequences for the British Army.
Cyber, Occasional Papers, Military Sciences, UK, Information, Technology, UK Defence
Spare Me Your Cyber-Age Technobabble
RUSI Defence Systems, 5 June 2020Jack Watling
If Defence is to appropriately weight cyber operations then there are some dangerous myths about the practicalities of cyber warfare that need to be confronted.
Cyber, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, UK, Technology, UK Defence, EuropePages
Mapping a Pandemic: Britain and China: Unusual Business - The Future Bilateral Relationship
Events, 7 May 2020An online briefing from experts of the Royal United Services Institute on the impact of Covid-19 on the UK/China relationship.
China, Coronavirus, International Security Studies, UK
Mapping a Pandemic: Lasting Consequences For The UK's Defence And Security Posture
Events, 23 April 2020An online briefing from experts of the Royal United Services Institute on the impact of Covid-19 on the UK.
Coronavirus, UK
RUSI Annual Security Lecture
Events, 24 February 2020Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick delivered the inaugural RUSI Annual Security Lecture.
Cyber, Organised Crime and Policing, UK, Technology, Europe
Tipping Point: Britain, Brexit and Security in the 2020s
Events, 26 November 2019A discussion with Professor Michael Clarke, Distinguished Fellow, RUSI and Helen Ramscar, Associate Fellow, RUSI, to launch their latest book entitled ‘Tipping Point: Britain, Brexit and Security in...
UK
Reflections on D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Events, 30 May 2019A panel discussion to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Battle for Normandy.
United States, UK, History, EuropePages
"Written Evidence for the International Trade Committee’s Inquiry on UK Freeports"
Crime in Freeports: International Experience and Lessons for the UK
In The News, 21 May 2020 Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK, Europe
"Written Evidence for the International Trade Committee’s Inquiry on UK Freeports"
Crime in Freeports: International Experience and Lessons for the UK
In The News, 21 May 2020 Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK, Europe
"Written Evidence for the International Trade Committee’s Inquiry on UK Freeports"
Crime in Freeports: International Experience and Lessons for the UK
In The News, 21 May 2020 Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK, Europe
"The other way the government is tackling this is by working directly with social media platforms to have content taken offline. If they can work with experts to identify false information online, whether that’s misinformation, which is information that is simply wrong, perhaps from self styled experts, or disinformation, which is often malicious information coming from bad actor, that will be much more beneficial than asking the public to try to be more critical online of the content they read. "
Sitrep 2nd April
In The News, 2 April 2020 Tags: Cyber, UK, Resilience, Technology, Europe
"According to Helena Wood at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK has been “sleepwalking” through the growth of economic crime, to a point where it is a systemic national security risk. But there is technology to take the fight to criminals. "
Criminals exploit technology so why can’t law enforcement?
In The News, 31 March 2020 Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK
Season Two: Framing Risk
Russia’s Revised Constitution Shows Putin is No Friend of Japan
The UK’s Integrated Review Has Restarted: Are Key Questions and Assumptions Still Valid?