Sanctions

We examine the complex challenges surrounding the design and implementation of sanctions and identify both public and private sector-based solutions and areas for collaboration.




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RUSI’s research examines the complex challenges surrounding the design and implementation of sanctions. Our approach to sanctions research is unique and provides much-needed input to a debate that is often conducted in professional silos.

In the lead-up to the UK’s exit from the EU, RUSI convened a high-level taskforce to assess questions relating to future UK sanctions policy. Our work also includes research on legislative developments in Washington and Brussels; the use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool more broadly; the implementation of country-based sanctions regimes (such as Russia or Iran); the role of technology in sanctions evasion; and counter-proliferation finance.

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  • Recording: Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Wally Adeyemo on Sanctions...

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  • Recording: RUSI Showcase: A Discussion on Illicit Finance and Global Security

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  • Recording: European Commissioner McGuinness on EU Sanctions and Financial Crime

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The SIFMANet Sanctions Brief

Our experts


Tom Keatinge

Director, CFCS

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Kinga Redlowska

Head of CFCS Europe

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Gonzalo Saiz

CFCS Research Analyst

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Dr Maria Nizzero

Research Fellow

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Chandana Seshadri

Research Analyst, Counter Proliferation Financing

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Fatima Alsancak

CPF Technical Assistance Programme Research Fellow

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Fellows


Dr Aaron Arnold

Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

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Andrea Berger

Associate Fellow

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Dr Anna Bradshaw

Associate Fellow; Partner, Business Crime Department, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

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Isabella Chase

Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI

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Emil Dall

Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Senior Research Fellow, RUSI

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Jan Dunin-Wasowicz

Associate Fellow; Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

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James Gillespie

Associate Fellow; Former Policy Advisor, HM Treasury

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Dr Myong-Hyun Go

Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea

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Justyna Gudzowska

Associate Fellow

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Olivia Kearney

Associate Fellow

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Kayla Izenman

Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI

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Aidan Larkin

Associate Fellow; Founder & CEO, Asset Reality

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Anton Moiseienko

Associate Fellow; Lecturer in Law, Australian National University

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Allison Owen

Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance

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Dr Daniel Salisbury

RUSI Associate Fellow - Expert in nuclear security and open source intelligence

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Dr Jason Shepherd

Senior Associate Fellow; Director, Analysis and Innovation, Thomson Reuters Special Services International

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Finance and Statecraft Programme

Financially Resilient Europe Programme

European Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network (Eur...

RUSI State Threats Taskforce (STT)

Taskforce on a Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance

Sanctions Taskforce

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