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RUSI experts and associates provide analysis on the latest developments in defence, security and international affairs.
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Financial Crime Insights Podcast Series The episodes in this series are based on past Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) events with top thinkers on topics that remain relevant in the world of financial crime. |
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Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series Hosted by Veele Nouwens, this podcast provides an essential a platform to discuss the key defence and security questions of the world’s most dynamic region: the Indo-Pacific. |

Russia’s Strategy in the Central African Republic
Commentary, 12 February 2021Samuel Ramani
As violence intensifies in the Central African Republic, Russia is expanding its military and diplomatic involvement in the conflict.
Russia, Africa
Unexplained Wealth Orders in the UK: What Will This Year Bring?
Commentary, 11 February 2021Anton 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.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
US Water Plant Suffers Cyber Attack Through the Front Door
Commentary, 10 February 2021Jamie MacColl and Sneha Dawda
An attempted cyber attack against a water treatment plant in Florida highlights endemic failures in the cyber security of the US water sector.
Cyber, Cyber Security, United States, Resilience, Technology
The UK Government Must Treat Fraud as a Threat to National Security
Commentary, 9 February 2021Ardi Janjeva
As fraud in the UK continues to grow, the government must do more to counter this invisible threat.
Organised Crime and Policing, UK, National Security
The Peace Process in Yemen is Broken
Commentary, 8 February 2021Jack Watling
If the Biden Administration wishes to broker peace in Yemen it needs to reconcile its contradictory policies towards the country and recognise that offensive military action is a necessary component...
Military Sciences, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Middle East and North Africa
Georgia Wins a Legal War Against Russia
Commentary, 5 February 2021Natia Seskuria
Following a 12-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights recently ruled in a landmark case, finding Russia responsible for major human rights violations during the 2008 war against...
Russia, Georgia
The UK and the CPTTP: Creating an Asian Option for the Future
Commentary, 4 February 2021Andrew Cainey
The UK’s application to join a free trade arrangement based around the Pacific Rim may result in a fundamental reorientation of the country’s global posture.
UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Pacific
Getting the Band Back Together: The UK and the 2021 G7 Summit
Commentary, 3 February 2021Malcolm Chalmers
The G7 summit this year is a key opportunity to reassert the importance of Western unity in international affairs. Here is an outline of how this could be done.
UK
Myanmar's Military Coup: International Reactions
Commentary, 2 February 2021Aaditya Dave and Veerle Nouwens
The UN Security Council is meeting today to discuss the military coup in Myanmar. There is plenty of condemnation from Western countries, but more nuanced reactions from Myanmar’s immediate...
International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Pacific
Far-Right Extremism in the US: A Threat No Longer Ignored
Commentary, 1 February 2021Jessica White
The events at the US Capitol in Washington D.C. on 6 January have jolted the US national security system into action and forced an acknowledgement of the dangers posed by far-right extremism.
Terrorism and Conflict, United States, National SecurityPages

The Future of Economic Crime Policing in the UK
Multimedia, 5 February 2021Policing is essential to the UK’s response to economic crime, yet it is an area that the government all too often overlooks. In this episode, recorded in February 2020, CFCS Associate Fellow Helena...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
No More walking away: No More Policy Vacuums
Multimedia, 5 February 2021Former senior US Ambassador Ryan Crocker tells Peter Roberts that the Biden administration will overturn not only the foreign policy direction of Trump, but also that of Barack Obama, and engage with...
Tags: Military Sciences, Western Way of War Podcast Series
South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Synergy
Multimedia, 3 February 2021This week, Veerle is joined by Professor Heung-Kyu Kim, founder and Director of the US-China Policy Institute and professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Ajou University,...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Crime Shouldn’t Pay... But It Still Does
Multimedia, 1 February 2021'Crime shouldn't pay' is the adage. But it still does; estimates show that only 1 percent of criminal proceeds are confiscated. In this week's episode of The Suspicious Transaction Report, asset...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
The Future Rules of Warfare
Multimedia, 28 January 2021Technological change is creating an inflection point for Western states that will have radical implications on how they will fight in the future. Even if such rates of change are not so radical, the...
Tags: Military Sciences
Breaking Slavery's Financial Chains
Multimedia, 25 January 2021Modern slavery and human trafficking are one of the most profitable crimes in the world, generating hundreds of billions of dollars a year. What more can the financial sector do to help tackle it?...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Episode Ten: Counter Terrorism Financing: Does the Current Global Approach Work?
Multimedia, 22 January 2021Twenty years on from the 9/11 attacks, has the global response to terrorist financing adapted alongside the evolving risk landscape? The CFCS’s Tom Keatinge is joined by Rachel Love from Standard...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF
Is the West Developing Innovation Fatigue?
Multimedia, 21 January 2021Acknowledging the power of innovation as a driver for building a competitive edge in warfare, new defence policies in the UK and US since 2015 began elevating military innovation as the chief...
Tags: Military Sciences
Trump, Biden, and the Indo-Pacific
Multimedia, 20 January 2021After the inauguration of President-elect Biden, this episode both takes a retrospective look at what worked and what didn’t in the Trump Administration’s approach to the Indo-Pacific, and examines...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, International Security Studies, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Adversarial Studies: Russian Strategic Thinking and the Kremlin’s Approach to Coercion
Multimedia, 19 January 2021In this seminar, Dr Michael Kofman charts the evolution of Russian strategic thinking over the past few decades, explaining how concepts of integrated deterrence and escalation management shape the...
Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Iran in the South Caucasus: Adjustment and Evolution
Rose Roth, language and youth
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club