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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.
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Assessing the Integrated Review: Illicit Finance, Sanctions and Organised Crime
22 April 2021, 15:30RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies and Organised Crime and Policing Team invite you to a discussion of the illicit finance, sanctions and serious and organised crime elements of...
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India and the United Kingdom in a Changing International Environment
23 April 2021, 10:30The Integrated Review lays out the UK’s foreign policy ambitions and outlines its ‘Indo-Pacific tilt’. As the UK seeks to become more integrated in the region with the aim of bolstering international...
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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 positions to discuss what the United Kingdom’s Integrated...
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Maximising the Utility of the UK’s Combat Aviation
27 April 2021, 15:00Concentrating one of the Army's most lethal platforms both presents the opportunity to bring a devastating volume of fire upon the enemy, and provides helicopters with a better chance to survive...
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Black Gold: Exposing North Korea's Oil Procurement Networks
28 April 2021, 13:00North Korea is reported to have continually broken a UN-mandated cap on its petroleum imports for at least the past six years. The latest report from RUSI and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies...
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Responsible Cyber Power
29 April 2021, 14:30We are experiencing a global change in the way cyber is exploited by adversaries. Our opponents are using cyber to do us harm in an ever-growing range of ways. Whether this includes attempts to...
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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 wars, global recession, the meteoric rise of China and...
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Update on the South China Sea Disputes: A Transatlantic Approach
12 May 2021, 14:00Nearly five years after an International Arbitration Tribunal ruling found against China’s maritime claims on the South China Sea, territorial disputes remain unaddressed. While China and ASEAN are ...
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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...
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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...

Black Gold: Exposing North Korea's Oil Procurement Networks
28 April 2021, 13:00North Korea is reported to have continually broken a UN-mandated cap on its petroleum imports for at least the past six years. The latest...

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...

Prisons and Terrorism
30 June 2021, 16:00Erupting in 1969, the Northern Ireland troubles continued with terrible intensity until 1998. The most enduring civil conflict in Western...

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...
International Day of UN Peacekeepers Conference: Enhancing the UK Contribution to Peacekeeping
27 May 2021, 10:00Marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, the conference is both an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifice made by those who have died in the service of humanity, and to analyse developments...
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...
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 Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler’s half-brother and presumed chief rival. Ri was soon released without...
Gender in Conflict and Security Webinar Series – Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter
14 April 2021, 17:00Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter (published by Palgrave) presents original research on gender and the dynamics of diverse forms of violent extremism and efforts to counter them. Based on focus group and interview research with...
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 globalisation. It included spells in pre-revolutionary Iran and the European Commission in Brussels, and...
Allies, Partners and Proxies: Challenges and Opportunities in Partnered Military Operations
14 April 2021, 12:30Over the last two decades of frontline operations, the ICRC has observed the increasing prevalence of external actors’ intervention in armed conflicts, in support of belligerents on the ground. Such support takes various shapes and forms, as actors...
Whitehall Briefing: Reflections on the UK Integrated Review 2021
13 April 2021, 16:00On 16 March, the government published its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, under the title ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age’. The Review was billed as the largest of its kind since the end of the Cold War...
Online Briefing on New UN DPRK Panel of Experts Report
08 April 2021, 12:00In this briefing, Mr. Arnold will provide an update on the panel’s forthcoming report, focusing on the most recent trends in DPRK proliferation financing. The UN Panel of Experts on North Korea was set up to monitor the implementation of UN...
Lessons from Operation Inherent Resolve: From Ensuring the Enduring Defeat of ISIS to Stabilising the Region
07 April 2021, 14:00The Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve was established in 2014, with the mission of defeating ISIS in designated areas of Iraq and Syria and setting conditions for follow-on operations to increase regional stability. But its...
UK Space Command - What Can We Expect?
06 April 2021, 14:00Increasing concerns regarding the weaponisation of space, threats to satellites and the possibility of conflict which extend into the Earth’s orbit have motivated several states to reorganise their military space capabilities. The establishment of...
Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 16:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war. Laying out in forensic detail...
Global Britain in a Competitive Age: Taking Stock of the Integrated Review
31 March 2021, 13:00But how adequate is the Review in addressing today’s challenges? And what are its implications for the UK’s military posture? Professor Malcolm Chalmers and Lord Ricketts discuss these and additional questions in a debate marking the publication of...
UK and Russia Perspectives on European Security
31 March 2021, 11:00Early this year, RUSI and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) convened a workshop to review British and Russian perspectives on the state of contemporary European security. Sessions at the workshop examined the threats faced by the...
Cancelled: Opportunities and Challenges for Implementation of 'Hateful Extremism' Legislation
30 March 2021, 15:00The report ‘Operating with Impunity - Hateful extremism: The need for a legal framework’ seeks to demonstrate how hateful extremists are able to operate lawfully, due to what it notes as a lack of legislation designed to deal with this specific...
UK PONI Workshop: Introduction to Nuclear Weapons Policy
25 March 2021, 10:00The workshop consists of a series of seminars from both RUSI staff and external speakers on nuclear policy basics covering deterrence, disarmament, non-proliferation, and nuclear programmes worldwide. This workshop is aimed at early career...
Semiconductors: A Foundational Technology Caught in a Geopolitical Debate
24 March 2021, 13:00Dutch Semiconductor firm ASML's decision to extend its contract with US-sanctioned Chinese technology company SMIC – added to the Department of Defense’s list of ‘Communist Chinese military companies’ in December 2020 - turned the spotlight on...
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 remains unclear in each case.Debates remain active...
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