Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2018
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Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2018
04 September 2018, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
In this centenary year of the Royal Air Force, the world’s oldest independent air force, Air Marshal Stringer will reflect on what independent air power has achieved. He will argue that in the modern...
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This event is sold out
Sold Out: Breakfast Briefing - Cyber and Information Security: A Danish Perspective
19 September 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
In April 2018, the Danish government launched a National Strategy for Cyber and Information Security, designed to address growing challenges in the digital and cognitive domains. As one of the world’...
Is Space the New Cyber?: UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities
02 October 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
As well as outlining the space threat landscape, it will also provide an opportunity to explore current understanding of dependencies, vulnerabilities and solutions.Conversations about space across...
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Breakfast Briefing: Virtual Currencies - Virtue or Vice?
18 October 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Virtual currencies (and cryptoassets more generally) are never far from the headlines and continue to gain in popularity. Yet, global regulatory responses remain inconsistent, ranging from hostility...
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Members’ Event - UK Future Combat Air Strategy
24 October 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
The government has been reviewing the future combat air strategy for the UK, based on the need to replace Typhoon in the 2030s. An extensive programme of work has been conducted in government on the...
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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule The World And How to Take It Back
09 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
From the passport-vendors of St Kitts and Nevis, to the secrecy vendors of Nevada, to the property vendors of Knightsbridge, it exposes a system where, if you're rich enough, whoever you are,...
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The Zinoviev Letter: A Century of Fake News?
27 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary effort, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Bolshevik propaganda organisation, to the...
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Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture and RUSI Christmas Party
11 December 2018, 18:00The Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture is held annually at RUSI, covering key topical defence and security issues. This is followed by the RUSI Christmas Party from 1900 to 2030. This event is open...
Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2018
04 September 2018, 11:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
In this centenary year of the Royal Air Force, the world’s oldest independent air force, Air Marshal Stringer will reflect on what...
Members’ Event - UK Future Combat Air Strategy
24 October 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The government has been reviewing the future combat air strategy for the UK, based on the need to replace Typhoon in the 2030s. An...
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule The World And How to Take It Back
09 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
From the passport-vendors of St Kitts and Nevis, to the secrecy vendors of Nevada, to the property vendors of Knightsbridge, it exposes a...
The Zinoviev Letter: A Century of Fake News?
27 November 2018, 13:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
The Zinoviev Letter of 1924, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary effort, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev,...
Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture and RUSI Christmas Party
11 December 2018, 18:00The Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture is held annually at RUSI, covering key topical defence and security issues. This is followed by the...
Is Space the New Cyber?: UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities
02 October 2018, 9:00RUSI Whitehall London, SW1A 2ET
As well as outlining the space threat landscape, it will also provide an opportunity to explore current understanding of dependencies, vulnerabilities and solutions.Conversations about space across...
Prospects for Peace, Development, Security, Democratisation and Stability in Sudan and the Region
26 July 2018, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
As well as being the Imam of the Ansar, a Sufi order, Imam Sadiq Al Mahdi is the leader of the National Umma Party and was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1986 until 1989, when he was deposed in a coup by now President Omar al Bashir, and continues to...
Decoding Dehumanisation: Preventing Dehumanisation through Neuroscience
25 July 2018, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
Based on cutting-edge research across five continents, Beyond Conflict is creating evidence-based tools to better prevent systemic discrimination, reduce conflict, and prevent mass atrocities.RUSI is delighted to host Beyond Conflict for a...
Breakfast Briefing: Thinking the Unthinkable
23 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Executive leadership faces new vulnerabilities. Many leaders privately concede them, but few are willing to talk publicly about them. ‘Unthinkable’ events since 2014 have revealed a new leadership fragility at the highest levels and the pace of...
187th RUSI Annual General Meeting
19 July 2018, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
AGENDA1. The Chairman’s Address and Director-General Update2. Financial Report3. First Resolution“That the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018, as circulated, be taken as read and adopted”.4. Second Resolution“That Messrs BDO LLP...
SOLD OUT: Breakfast Briefing: Reflections on the NATO Summit: What Next?
16 July 2018, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Please note this event is now sold out. All NATO summits seem to be meeting at times of 'critical choice'. The NATO summit in Brussels on 11-12 July will be no different, but more importantly, it will straddle some near-term and major structural...
The New Russian Empire: A discussion with Dr Agnia Grigas
11 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
In 2016 Dr Agnia Grigas asked how Russia will redraw post-Soviet borders in the wake of Russian expansionism. In Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire Dr Grigas illustrated how —for more than two decades—Moscow has consistently used its compatriots...
The UK Modernising Defence Programme
09 July 2018, 17:30RUSI Whitehall
Throughout 2018, the Ministry of Defence has been undertaking a defence review to match resources to requirements. This supposes that the government understands the range of obligations it has, the sort of operations towards which it might commit UK...
The India-Pakistan Deadlock
09 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
Please click 'Register Now' to book your place - if you are unable to do so, please register your attendance with Sajid Ali via SajidA@rusi.org. Please note, registration is mandatory for this event.Ceasefire violations, militancy, and diplomatic...
Prisoner's Voices in the Liberation Collection
09 July 2018, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
The Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection is a comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets in French on the Second World War, the occupation and the liberation, published during a period of just over two years, from August 1944 to the end of...
Defence, Industry and UK Prosperity: A Report by Philip Dunne MP
09 July 2018, 11:30RUSI Whitehall
The Ministry of Defence's formal obligation to contribute to national prosperity is several years old and the Secretary of state recently asked Philip Dunne MP to prepare an independent report on what the MoD is doing and might do differently in...
Antonio Giustozzi on The Islamic State in Khorasan
05 July 2018, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious...
Reforming the SARs Regime: Legislative, Regulatory and Technical Challenges
05 July 2018, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
The system for reporting suspicious financial activity in the UK is recognised as not fitting the needs of the 21st century. The global standards on which the regime is based are several decades old. The emergence of public-private partnerships for...
Think Tanks in the 21st Century: Engaging Youth and Use of Technology
03 July 2018, 14:00RUSI Whitehall
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world's oldest independent think tank on international defence and security. Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, RUSI has been providing forward thinking, free discussion and careful reflection on...
Rules for Modernising UK Defence: Enough of the Negativity
03 July 2018, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
The Speech Thank you also to RUSI – to Peter and all the others here who have facilitated this event today. I have, over the last week, thought at length over what I was going to say today. I am enormously grateful to be given the chance by RUSI to...
Money Laundering and the London Property Market
02 July 2018, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
At the global Anti-Corruption Summit in May 2016, PM David Cameron emphasised the need to “clean up our property market right here in London.” This turned attention to the role of professional services firms, especially lawyers, accountants and real...
US Sanctions on Russia
Lessons from Down Under: The Soft Power Dividend of Financial Crime Technical Assistance
President Trump’s Indo–Pacific Economic Investment Initiative: Good, But Not Enough