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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.

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...
US Presidential Election – How the Results Will Impact International Security
09 November 2020, 14:30The 2020 US Presidential election is one of the most significant for decades in foreign policy terms. The choice for voters is summed up in the contrasting taglines of the candidates’ campaigns: Donald Trump’s America First versus Joe Biden’s...
UK PONI Introduction to Nuclear Technology Workshop
05 November 2020, 14:00UK PONI will hold an online 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...
August Browne: The British-Polish Nigerian Who Took on the Nazis
30 October 2020, 16:00Having travelled to Britain from Nigeria in the early part of the 20th century, August Agboola Browne settled down and became a successful Jazz musician in Poland prior to his participation in the struggle against Nazi occupation. Browne’s story...
Transatlantic Relations on Iran After the US Elections
30 October 2020, 13:30Since the heralding of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by the P5+1 group in 2015, the last four years have witnessed a schism emerge between the United States and Europe over Iran. While the E3 members have maintained...
Building Stronger Societies: Involving Teenagers in National Security
29 October 2020, 16:00With national security threats growing, countries are looking increasingly to teenagers as a resource. Traditional conscription, as practiced in past generations, is mostly neither feasible nor desirable. Instead, a number of countries have...
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....
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