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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.
They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad
14 April 2021, 16:00Sir Peter Westmacott's forty-year career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office straddled the last decade of the Cold War and the age of...
Our Man in Malaysia: The Life and Actions of a North Korean Agent
15 April 2021, 13:00In 2017, a North Korean national named Ri Jong Chol was arrested in Malaysia in connection to the assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport of...
How Integrated are Foreign Affairs and Development in the UK Integrated Review?
26 April 2021, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, Douglas Alexander and Rory Stewart deploy the experience they gained in their previously-held government...
Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
11 May 2021, 16:00After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after the Second World War is rapidly coming to an end. Foreign...
Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History
14 July 2021, 16:00In forensic and compelling detail, Professor Jytte Klausen shows how Islamist terrorism in Europe and North America has been driven, not by...
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...
RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2021: Integrating for Operations Today and Warfighting Tomorrow
02 June 2021, 9:00The British Government published its Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review in March 2021, setting out its ambition for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade. Given the...
Reflections on Assessing National Exposure to Proliferation Financing Risk
29 October 2020, 14:00Earlier this summer, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) requested feedback on a proposed amendment to its Recommendation 1. The amendment would require countries and financial institutions to assess their exposure to the risk of facilitating...
The U.S. Election: Foreign and Security Policy Challenges For the Next President
28 October 2020, 16:00The American people will vote on Tuesday 3 November 2020 in order to elect their next President, either giving Republican Donald Trump another four years or handing over the keys of the White House to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. This...
CTF Online Symposium No. 4: Fraud-Enabled Terrorism Financing: A Neglected Dossier
28 October 2020, 14:00Terrorism can be financed through funds collected both unlawfully and lawfully. In recent years, fraud has become a key catalyst fuelling many terrorism financing methods. In this webinar, Professor Nicholas Ryder presents his research briefing that...
Africa in Perspective - Gender Empowerment in Peace and Security
28 October 2020, 12:00In 2000, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 – a turning point in understanding and recognising the role of women and girls in peace and security. The UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda contained ...
Progressive Terrorism Studies Webinar Series – Disrupting Networks of Influence
27 October 2020, 14:00Exploring the roots of Salafi-Jihadi resilience creates an opportunity for policymakers and tech professionals to consider data which can augment attempts to disrupt this movement’s networks online. Communication is a relational activity....
Problems of Geography: Military and Economic Transport Logistics in Russia’s Far East
26 October 2020, 14:00The Russian Far East (RFE) is essential to maintaining Russia’s status as a military and economic power. But to connect up Russia’s vast territory and join the European part of Russia to the RFE, adequate transport infrastructure is critical....
37th International Churchill Conference
23 October 2020, 16:45This conference seeks to explore leadership in times of adversity. We mark the sacrifices of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, 80 years on, and celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.Further details here https...
An Online Conversation with Two Former Spymasters
22 October 2020, 16:00In this wide-ranging conversation, General Petraeus and Sir John Sawers discussed the next big geopolitical and global security challenges for the 21st century.The webinar will be moderated by Vance Serchuk, Executive Director, KKR Global Institute....
A conversation with H E Fuad Hussein and H E Juma Anad Saadoun Al-Juburi
21 October 2020, 12:00RUSI's Unpacking the MENA programme is delighted to have host a conversation featuring H E Fuad Hussein, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and H E Juma Anad Saadoun Al-Juburi, Iraq’s Defence Minister and focusing on Iraq’s priorities...
Tackling Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indo-Pacific
16 October 2020, 14:00The Indo-Pacific has emerged as a space for great power competition between China and the United States. Besides this wider strategic struggle, however, there are a number of localised security issues that are priorities for regional states....
Dark Money and Democracy: Is There a Way Out?
12 October 2020, 14:30The 2016 US elections, the Brexit referendum, the Scottish independence referendum – time and again allegations of nefarious financial meddling raise a cloud of uncertainty over democratic processes across the world. And as the UK’s recent Russia...
Future Challenges in Economic Crime: A View from the SFO
08 October 2020, 14:00RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies is delighted to welcome back the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Lisa Osofsky, for a discussion of the SFO’s current work and future priorities. Ms Osofsky joined the SFO in August...
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia on Georgia’s Pro-Western Foreign Policy Agenda, Security Threats and the Challenges Ahead
08 October 2020, 11:00Addressing the key priorities of Georgia’s pro-Western foreign policy agenda, His Excellency Mr Giorgi Gakharia discusses Georgia’s progress and challenges in its path to European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Twelve years on since the Russian-...
US Election 2020: What's in Store for Sanctions?
06 October 2020, 14:00Whether it is the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, expanding economic pressure on Venezuela, responding to political developments in Hong Kong, or disagreements with the International Criminal Court, Washington's favoured foreign policy tool...
Book Launch - The Radical’s Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back
05 October 2020, 15:00How and why do people become Neo-Nazis? How does it feel to be one? What makes one leave the movement? What is it like to be a former member? These issues are examined in detail in this important book. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 German...
Unintended Consequences: Humanitarianism and CTF Compliance
The Imperfect Equilibrium of Russian Civil–Military Relations
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review