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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...
Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 14:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Each of the three efforts is aiming to eventually field a family of systems which will work together to deliver future air power effects. However, exactly what form this family of systems will take...
Precision Strike in 21st Century Multidomain Operations
13 May 2021, 12:00The ‘democratisation’ of access to long-range precision strike assets once thought to be components of an exclusively Western revolution in military affairs will have important ramifications for the...
Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Organising Ourselves for the Next Crisis
16 September 2020, 16:00When the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, a fact that had previously not been considered critical became obvious: most Western countries are ill-prepared for crises. While governments may have plans, crisis preparedness needs to involve the...
Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism (STRIVE II) Kenya: Project Closing Lessons Learned and Evaluation
16 September 2020, 9:00READ REPORT STRIVE II Kenya (Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism) is the follow-on programme to STRIVE Horn of Africa, the first EU funded countering violent extremism (CVE) programme in the region. The programme is coming to a close...
Ahead of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly – Can Multilateralism be Rebuilt for a Post-Covid World: A Conversation Between The Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander and Ambassador Elizabeth Cousens
14 September 2020, 16:00This wide-ranging conversation covered the multilateral response to the Covid-19 crisis to date and will look ahead to the key themes of the 75th United Nations General Assembly - from Covid to climate, and from biodiversity to gender - and will...
Paper Launch: Management of Defence After the Levene Reforms: What Comes Next?
10 September 2020, 12:00Generated in part as a contribution to thinking for the Integrated Review, this paper builds on an analysis of almost a century of efforts to promote greater coordination among the individual services and identifies current weaknesses. It ...
Whitehall Briefing - The Future of UK–EU Intelligence Sharing in a Post-Brexit World
09 September 2020, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
The UK has been deeply embedded in EU security mechanisms for many years. In fact, the UK was instrumental in developing many of the capabilities which are now relied upon to facilitate co-operation and data sharing between member states’...
“Why the Germans Do It Better” Notes from a Grown Up Country
08 September 2020, 16:00Emerging from a collection of disparate city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame. Today, as much of the world succumbs to authoritarianism and...
Keeping Online Payments Safe: Resilience of Digital Payments
02 September 2020, 16:00Though most transactions go through without problems, the vast volume of transactions and money now changing hands online means online payment systems are a constant target for crime and other subversive activity. How can digital payments be made...
Is there a Nexus Between Crime and Violent Extremism in the Horn of Africa?
27 August 2020, 14:30The nexus between crime and violent extremism has been the subject of increasing scholarly and political concern. While there is a plethora of research to suggest a link between crime and violent extremism, evidence of such relations is limited in...
The UAE-Israel Deal: A New Chapter for the Middle East?
27 August 2020, 12:00The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates promises to establish normal relations between the two countries. In this sense, the agreement is historic; hitherto only Egypt and Jordan fully normalised their links with Israel. Yet the...
Africa in Perspective – Spotlight on Somalia
26 August 2020, 12:00Somalia is at a political crossroads. The signing by President Farmajo in February 2020 of a historic federal law has paved the way for Somalia to hold popular elections next year based upon the 'one person, one vote' principle. However, major...
Sweden’s Total Defence 2020 Exercise: Presentation of Preliminary Outcomes
25 August 2020, 15:00This summer Sweden is concluding Total Defence 2020, its first total defence exercise in more than three decades. The national exercise, which began in the autumn of 2019, is led by the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency...
Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
20 August 2020, 16:00Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights and diplomacy. In this webinar, and in the light of the...
VJ Day 75 Years On: Reflections on the UK-Japan Relationship
13 August 2020, 10:0015 August 2020 – VJ Day - marks both the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War. The conclusion of years of hardship, sacrifice and bloodshed brought joy and relief for many; for others, it heralded a new world of uncertainty. It...
The Legacies of the 2008 Russia-Georgia War for Security in the Black Sea Region
06 August 2020, 14:00The August 2008 Russia-Georgia marked a key moment for post-Cold War European security. The fighting that erupted in the summer between Russia and Georgia, and which also involved the self-declared breakaway republics of South Ossetia and...
Progressive Terrorism Studies Webinar Series – The Persistent Online Presence: The Shift in Platform Exploitation Over Time
30 July 2020, 15:30How the Salafi-Jihadi movement has been able to exploit the internet to distribute their message has been a key concern of those seeking to challenge these narratives.In 2019 Emily Winterbotham, Dr Ali Fisher and Dr Nico Prucha published the largest...
The Budding Alliance Between Lockdown Critics and the Far-Right in Germany
FCAS: Is the Franco-German-Spanish Combat Air Programme Really in Trouble?
Getting the Partnership Right