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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.
Progressive Terrorism Studies Webinar Series – The Persistent Online Presence: The Shift in Platform Exploitation Over Time
14 July 2020, 14:00How the Salafi-Jihadi movement has been able to exploit the internet to distribute their message has been a key concern of those seeking to...
The Ministry of Defence Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
15 July 2020, 13:00In his speech, the Minister for the Armed Forces will discuss the role of the Ministry of Defence in mitigating the Covid-19 crisis and how...
189th RUSI Annual General Meeting
16 July 2020, 16:00A notice of all business to be transacted at the meeting shall be posted on the Institute’s website, at least 14 days before the date of...
Launch of the Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Restricting Foreign Acquisitions for the Sake of National Security
17 July 2020, 11:00In the past few months, an increasing number of Western countries - including Poland, Italy, Sweden and the UK - have announced new...
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,...
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Countering CBRN At Home and Abroad
23 September 2020, 9:00The use of Chemical Weapons is a war crime. Yet chemical weapons have been used widely during the Syrian conflict, including the use of nerve agents, while in 2018 Russia conducted a nerve agent...
Modern Deterrence Autumn 2020 Conference
21 October 2020, 9:00RUSI Modern Deterrence conference in partnership with the NATO Public Diplomacy Division.With threats and aggression facing liberal democracies increasing, national security is more important today...
Tech as a Virtue: Ethical Technology as a Source of Societal Strength
20 November 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The current debate about technology and national security in liberal democracies focuses on the vulnerabilities created by technology. Given how strategic competitors and adversaries exploit Western societies’ technology-based vulnerabilities, for...
POSTPONED - UK Defence Estate: Strategic Asset and National Endowment Paper Launch
19 November 2019, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
The Defence Training Estate in the United Kingdom exists to enable the training of Service personnel to Single Service and joint operational readiness standards of military effectiveness. It is utilised daily and the management of the Estate is far...
Breakfast Briefing - Operating in Russia: High Risks with Little Return?
19 November 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
The diplomatic relationship between Russia and the West has been difficult for some years and was particularly exacerbated in 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in eastern Ukraine. Rounds of western sanctions,...
Financial Action Task Force Strategic Review
18 November 2019, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
Over the past 30 years the Financial Action Task Force has undoubtedly raised financial crime compliance standards around the world amongst governments and their private sectors. Their decennial reviews challenge countries and trigger feverish...
Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2019
18 November 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
He also discussed the need for maintaining and enhancing military capability across defence in an ever-changing operational environment.The Speech Transcript as deliveredIt is a great privilege to be asked to give the Trenchard memorial lecture....
UK Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Doctrine
14 November 2019, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
It is against the backdrop of our current challenging security environment that the deterrent becomes ever-more a part of the UK’s national security posture. The UK PONI in coordination with YPFP are pleased to announce our roundtable event on the...
Modern Deterrence Conference Autumn 2019
13 November 2019, 9:30RUSI Whitehall
This conference examined the connection between defence and offence in deterring greyzone threats; it also examined deterrence of aggression triggered by climate change. Deterrence is, by definition, about psychology: how does an actor convince...
A Discussion with Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Syrian Democratic Council
11 November 2019, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
Ms Ahmed discussed the latest developments in Northern Syria and exploring possibilities for political reconciliation.Ms Ahmed currently serves as Co-Chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), a coalition of multiethnic organisations representing...
Professor Philip Bobbitt on the Impeachment of a US President
11 November 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In his lecture, Professor Bobbitt, the co-author of Impeachment: A Handbook, described the constitutional context of Presidential impeachment and dispelled a number of popular myths about the process and its history. He also discussed the current...
Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin on the American Handshake: Building Trust and the Future of U.S. Alliances
05 November 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In this discussion, Congresswoman Slotkin offered her views on the value and future of U.S. alliances and how the ‘American handshake’ relies on building trust, both at home and abroad. Speaker Biography Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin serves the...
Down and Out in Pyongyang and London
04 November 2019, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
Project SANDSTONE’s latest investigation, conducted in conjunction with The Times, revealed how North Korea’s coal smuggling networks continued to use UK registered companies to evade UN sanctions imposed on the country following its nuclear and...
Gallipoli Memorial Lecture 2019
30 October 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
Admiral Tony Radakin CB ADC was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in June 2019. Commissioned in 1990, his operational service has involved the Iran/Iraq Tanker War, security duties in the Falklands, NATO embargo operations in the...
Megan Butler on Turning Technology Against Financial Crime
23 October 2019, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
Technology has brought about a step change in how financial crime is committed, with much of the direct threat to customers having now moved online. In her lecture, Megan discussed how the FCA is turning technology against criminals, from a world...
UK PONI Nuclear Technology Workshop
23 October 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
UK PONI will hold a one-day workshop covering the basics of nuclear technology including fuel cycles, nuclear weapons and delivery systems aimed at early career professionals working in the nuclear policy field but without a scientific or...
Bluster: Donald Trump's War on Terror with Professor Peter Neumann
15 October 2019, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Defeating terrorism was one of Donald Trump's key campaign promises. But there is no easy way to make sense of Donald Trump's war on terror. Is it all bluster, aimed at mobilising his base, or does it represent a genuine shift from previous...
The UK’s Integrated Review Has Restarted: Are Key Questions and Assumptions Still Valid?
Open Skies Clouded by Sham and Ambiguity
Western Way of War: Professor Frank Hoffman