Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime, and David Carlisle, Associate Fellow, spoke at the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism. They presented the findings of their paper (authored with RUSI Research Analyst Florence Keen), commissioned by the Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs.
Helena Wood
Despite a regulatory environment perceived by many as stringent, the UK has a reputation as a global hub for money-laundering. Over the next two years, the UK Government will prepare itself for an assessment of its anti money-laundering and counter terrorist-financing efforts.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime
Raffaello Pantucci
The jihadist movement known as Daesh has claimed responsibility for the aborted attack on an art contest in Texas. But other than shared motives, there are hardly any real linkages. Overreaction and misreading of the threat will merely play into their hands.
Tags: International Security Studies, Terrorism, United States, Americas, Iraq, Syria, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
Raffaello Pantucci and Sasha Jesperson
Boko Haram as a group may be less cohesive than often thought, but well able to exploit the Nigerian government's failing strategy
Tags: International Security Studies, Terrorism and Conflict, Occasional Papers, Terrorism, Africa
Whilst allowing intercept evidence into open court can possibly address existing civil liberty concerns, it could conversely result in a fundamental revision of counter-terror strategy.
Tags: Law and Ethics, Terrorism, Europe
Within days of the London terror attacks, we have heard a great deal about how terrorism in the UK has entered a new era.
Tags: Terrorism
Reinforcing the need to introduce identity cards, the use of the Internet in propagating extremism and the need to counter financial support for terrorism were some of the key points of a speech delivered by Chancellor Gordon Brown at the Royal United Services Institute today. In a talk, entitled ‘Securing our future’, the Chancellor outlined his vision of where and how Britain...
Tags: Domestic Security, Intelligence, Terrorism, Europe
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement