Dr Tobias Feakin

Position: Director, National Security & Resilience

Tobias is Director of the National Security and Resilience department at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Within this role he is responsible for the growth of a research team examining issues pertaining to radicalisation, terrorism, counter-terrorist policy and technologies, resilience, critical national infrastructure, and the security impacts of climate change.

He completed his Ph.D in International Security and Politics from the University of Bradford in 2005 with a thesis entitled “Non-Lethal Weapons: Technology for Lowering Casualties”. Since that time he has worked as a Research Fellow for the Landau Network, Centro-Volta in Italy, and the Home Office arriving at RUSI in 2006.

He has lectured at the University of Cambridge, University of Bradford, Joint Services Command and Staff College, the NATO Defence College in Rome, as well as speaking internationally at numerous conferences and roundtable discussions. Regularly being used by the media he has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, NBC, Al-Jazeera, Sky News, as well as being quoted in many newspapers around the globe.

RUSI articles and analysis by this author

7 July bombings five years on: The Psychological Impacts of 7/7 7 Jul 2010
It is important that the public do not allow the events of 7/7, or any terrorist activity, to fundamentally re-shape the way they go about their everyday lives, but it is important that we acknowledge that the events of 7/7 can still be causing psychological distress to those who were most significantly affected by it as well as the general public.

National Security in an Age of ‘Shock and Aftershock’ 13 Aug 2009
The globalising processes of enhanced communication and technological flows have created an interconnected world. Governments must now quickly respond to unexpected events around the world: both their shock and aftershock.

Policing the G20 Summit Under the World’s Gaze 1 Apr 2009
The G20 Summit will entail the biggest security operation London has ever seen. The manner in which agencies deal with the influx of heads of states and legions of protestors will be instructive for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Bringing Intelligence into the Light 9 Jan 2009
In the first public interview ever given by a serving Director General of MI5, Jonathan Evans claims that the high number of prosecutions of suspected terrorists has ‘chilled’ the enthusiasm of terror networks. Although the UK is making headway against the terrorist networks within its own borders, the long-term fight against terrorism will be won by upholding liberal democratic values rather than adopting the Guantanamo approach.

Learning Lessons from the De Menezes Shooting 22 Sep 2008
As the inquest into the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes in 2005 opens today, the task at hand should not only be to apportion blame but also to consider the technologies and the procedural changes required to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring again.

Climate Change – The Gathering Momentum of the Security Debate 6 Jul 2007
There has been a veritable ‘tidal wave’ of political capital expended on the topic of climate change. Within this new focus of political and media attentions, the topic of climate change as a security issue has become an increasingly debated area by academics and politicians alike.

MI5’s assessment of the terrorist threat in the UK 13 Nov 2006
Has the MI5 chief's warning on 9 November updated our appreciation of the the terror threat in the UK?

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