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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.
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...
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...
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...
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...
A New Model for Tackling Cyber-Enabled Fraud
06 July 2020, 12:00Cybercriminals are consistently targeting financial institutions and individuals by carrying out cyber-enabled and cyber-assisted fraud. This type of cybercrime should be high on the agenda for security teams and business leaders within all...
Book Launch - Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
02 July 2020, 15:00Kaszeta was joined by Dr. Caitriona McLeish for an interactive discussion on the book, and explore what this historical review can teach us about managing chemical weapons risks today.Toxic is a dark and chilling story of the invention,...
Mapping a Pandemic: Managing Instability - The Pandemic from the Perspective of Civil Society
25 June 2020, 12:00In fragile and conflict affected environments, governments have struggled to provide healthcare, food security, education and safety for their citizens. With access and trusted relationships across communities, civil society leaders - including...
Gallipoli Memorial Lecture 2020
25 June 2020, 9:00Click here for the text of the speech. His Excellency The Honourable George Brandis QC was appointed High Commissioner for Australia to the United Kingdom in May 2018. Mr Brandis has had a distinguished political career in Australia as a member of...
Africa in Perspective
24 June 2020, 12:00The African Union’s Agenda 2063, sets out seven aspirational commitments in its African development and transformation programme intended to enable Africa to fulfil its potential. However, across sub-Saharan Africa, crime, violent extremism,...
New Methods of Payment and Financial Crime
22 June 2020, 12:00The emergence of new financial services and methods of payment, from fintechs to cryptocurrencies, has brought greater variety and choice to communities. As is inevitable with most innovations, their advantages have not been lost on criminal groups...
Brexit and the UK-US Special Relationship
19 June 2020, 16:00Britain prides itself on its special relationship with the United States. Ties of history, language and culture matter; so, in recent decades, has London’s informal role as a go-between for Washington’s relations with Brussels, Berlin, and Paris....
Illicit Cigarette Consumption in the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland
18 June 2020, 10:00The illicit cigarette trade does not respect borders nor laws, and affects different countries and regions alike around the world. The European Union is no exception. For the past 14 years, KPMG has been studying the illicit cigarette consumption in...
Whitehall Briefing: The New British Army Operating Concept
17 June 2020, 12:00RUSI Whitehall
Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, western governments have been trying to adapt to a challenging new security environment. Persistent instability in the Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, coupled with the return...
Exclusive Online Briefing on NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence
16 June 2020, 15:00Jessica L. Cox, Director, Nuclear Policy Directorate at NATO HQ, was the author of an article on the continued relevance of nuclear deterrence to NATO security. The event was moderated by Tom Plant, Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy,...
Detecting and Seizing the Proceeds of Cybercrime
16 June 2020, 12:00Cybercrime is a major category of profit-driven criminality. With financial gain being the motivation behind most of cybercrime, disrupting cybercrime-related financial flows is a key vector of disrupting cybercriminal networks, especially since...
RUSI-Ecole de Guerre Series 2020
15 June 2020, 9:00European Defence: Time for a Private Solution? Major Nicolas Bourbigot, Major Nicolas Rocquet and Major Matthieu Toyer speak on contractorisation. This video is part of a series of presentations by officers studying at France's Ecole de Guerre on...
The Corona Lessons: Learning from Finland's Fight against Coronavirus
12 June 2020, 13:30To date Finland – a country with a population of 5.5 million -- has only had 6,743 coronavirus infections and 313 deaths. The country’s success rests on preparedness, early intervention and creativity. The country went into a lockdown before the...
Paper Launch: Performing Information Manoeuvre Through Persistent Engagement
11 June 2020, 15:30Military activity in the information domain has always been a key element of warfare. However today we face significant changes in the information operating environment that armed forces must adapt to meet. The density of information is increasing...
Mapping a Pandemic: Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps - Navigating Between the Effective, Trustworthy and the Lawful
11 June 2020, 14:00Virus tracing apps are seen as an essential tool in supressing the spread of COVID-19, which has already killed more than 40,000 in the UK, and nearly 400,000 people worldwide. Britain will soon be joining a growing number of countries around...
International Women’s Day: The Tasks Ahead
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism