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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...
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National Security Skills and the Integrated Review
03 June 2021, 10:00The IR stated that “there is much more to do to harness the diverse perspectives and experience that drive innovation and adaptation and to maintain the collaborative, agile and inclusive behaviours...
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UK Project on Nuclear Issues Annual Conference 2021
08 June 2021, 13:00The 2021 UK PONI Annual Conference provides participants with a platform from which to discuss and debate new nuclear thinking, a forum in which to meet nuclear specialists from a variety of fields,...
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The Imperial War Museum’s Second World War and Holocaust Galleries: Relevance, Impact, Development
11 June 2021, 13:00Our lives have been shaped by the legacy of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Yet despite the magnitude of these events and the extent to which they continue to loom within our contemporary...
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RUSI Free-Trade Zone Risk Assessment Tool: Main Launch Event
14 June 2021, 12:00Free-trade zones (FTZs) make a vital contribution to the economic prosperity of many countries but are fraught with risks of crime. Ensuring high governance standards and preventing crime in FTZs is...
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RUSI Annual Security Lecture by Lindy Cameron, CEO, UK National Cyber Security Centre
14 June 2021, 16:00Lindy Cameron CB OBE, who has two decades of national security policy and crisis management experience, started her career in the private sector and then served across government both at home and...
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The Military Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation in the Baltic Region
16 June 2021, 16:00In his current role, Lieutenant General Herem has been a strong advocate of regional military cooperation and shared capability development among Baltic states. He is also a proponent of the...
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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 Europe since the Second World War cost almost 4,000 lives,...
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The FATF Standards and Unintended Consequences – Part 1: Assessing the Past
08 July 2021, 14:30As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) considers ways to mitigate the unintended consequences of its financial crime standards, this three-part webinar series will assess the FATF’s work on this...
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RUSI Annual Security Lecture by Lindy Cameron, CEO, UK National Cyber Security Centre
14 June 2021, 16:00Lindy Cameron CB OBE, who has two decades of national security policy and crisis management experience, started her career in the private...
The Military Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation in the Baltic Region
16 June 2021, 16:00In his current role, Lieutenant General Herem has been a strong advocate of regional military cooperation and shared capability development...
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...
190th RUSI Annual General Meeting
15 July 2021, 15:00Register to attend in person Register to attend online Please note, there will be limited places available for in-person attendance to...
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...
UK Project on Nuclear Issues Annual Conference 2021
08 June 2021, 13:00The 2021 UK PONI Annual Conference provides participants with a platform from which to discuss and debate new nuclear thinking, a forum in which to meet nuclear specialists from a variety of fields,...
Turkey’s Drones: Assessing Capability, Goals and Implications
28 May 2021, 14:00With its rapid expansion of domestic development and production, Turkey is increasingly considered an emerging drone power. Turkey’s use of armed UAVs in conflict zones such as Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, northern Iraq and the Eastern...
Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Investigations in West Africa – Paper Launch
27 May 2021, 11:00However, while the significance of the region in global IWT flows is increasingly recognised, very little is known about the financial aspects of these criminal operations. In 2020, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) called on countries to...
International Day of UN Peacekeepers Conference: Enhancing the UK Contribution to Peacekeeping
27 May 2021, 10:00Marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, this virtual 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 in peacekeeping operations.The UK...
Strategic Command Conference: Sharpening UK Defence’s Edge in the 2020s
26 May 2021, 9:00Booking ticketsWe are running this conference as a hybrid event, offering 24 places for people to attend the conference in-person on a first come, first served basis, please note the in-person tickets are now sold out, however we are also enabling...
The Integrated Review: Implications for the UK’s Nuclear Weapons Posture
21 May 2021, 13:00Join this virtual, interactive workshop for a policy deep dive that explores the key nuclear-related changes in the UK’s Integrated Review.The UK government has recently published its vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade, '...
RUSI Free-Trade Zone Risk Assessment Tool: Launch Event – Panama
20 May 2021, 15:00Free-trade zones (FTZs) make a vital contribution to the economic prosperity of many countries, but are fraught with risks of crime. Ensuring high governance standards and preventing crime in FTZs is therefore an essential – but often overlooked –...
RUSI Free-Trade Zone Risk Assessment Tool: Launch Event – Singapore
18 May 2021, 9:00Free-trade zones (FTZs) make a vital contribution to the economic prosperity of many countries, but are fraught with risks of crime. Ensuring high governance standards and preventing crime in FTZs is therefore an essential – but often overlooked...
A Changing Middle East and Implications for NATO
13 May 2021, 13:30This event looks at the current and forthcoming challenges in the Middle East, exploring flashpoints of confrontations, shifting rivalries and alliances, and trends that could shape the security landscape over the next decade. We will also seek to...
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 conduct of 21st century warfare.The introduction...
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 engaged in a protracted process of negotiating a...
Hard Choices: The UK Rethinks Its Global Role
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 India, and the Covid pandemic, have undermined the...
Taking the Profit Out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime
11 May 2021, 14:00Published in March 2021, RUSI’s latest Whitehall Report Taking the Profit Out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime found that audio-visual piracy is increasingly carried out by organised crime groups operating across multiple...
Cyber, Technology and Geopolitics
11 May 2021, 13:00Recent high-profile attacks attributed to Russia and China have pushed hostile state cyber activity to the front of the agenda. The use of cyber as an operational tool is being increasingly incorporated into existing national strategies, including...
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 exercise malign influence over democratic processes,...
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 (C4ADS), a US-based think-tank that provides data-...
Optimising Cyber Security Public–Private Partnerships
Elsa B Kania: Catalysts for Change in the Chinese Military
Has the Time Come for an All-Adult Army?