

Tom Keatinge
The latest FATF plenary has drawn the financial technical standard-setter deep into uncomfortable political territory.
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Programme, Iran, AML/CTFRUSI’s Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing research programme was cited this week in a UN report on the threat posed by ISIL.The Secretary-General report addressed the ways in which the threat of ISIL. The sixth report of its kind, it considered how to prevent the financing of terrorism and how 'innovative partnerships between Government agencies and private sector actors' could help achieve...
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Middle East and North AfricaAniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Report on two days of meetings, co-hosted by RUSI and the British Council, of UK- and Iran-based scholars who discussed the state of Iran–West relations following the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Programme, Iran, Conference Reports, UK, Proliferation and Nuclear PolicyTobias Borck
The UK is ‘back East of Suez’, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson declared earlier this month. However, while the British government is making the engagement with the Arab Gulf states a centrepiece of its foreign policy, Germany is also looking to strengthen its relationships in the region, albeit more cautiously and with less fanfare.
Tags: RUSI International, Germany, Defence Policy, Europe, Middle East and North AfricaAniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
As Turkey has progressively increased its involvement in the war in Syria, the Iranian leadership’s reaction has been mixed – a result of the different views within Tehran about the future direction of the relationship with Turkey. This internal debate will intensify as the possibility of establishing no-fly zones in Syria has been endorsed by the US.
Tags: International Security Studies, Turkey, Iran, SyriaMichael Stephens
The deal to implement a ceasefire across Syria brokered by the US and Russia is a major development in the course of that country’s brutal conflict. It presents a faint glimmer of hope – the first in years – that an end may be in sight to what to date remains this century’s bloodiest conflict.
Tags: RUSI International, Syria, Counterinsurgency, Middle East and North AfricaShashank Joshi
The November 2013 Geneva Agreement is only the first step down what is likely to be a long and bumpy road
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Programme, RUSI Journal, Iran, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Middle East and North AfricaH A Hellyer
Two years after the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, it seems that Egypt will continue to be faced with political turmoil and social unrest for some time to come.
Tags: Egypt, International Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, Middle East and North AfricaJoanne Mackowski
As the threat posed by Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula has evolved, the US has responded by sending in the Predator drones
Tags: Air Power and Technology, Defence, Industries and Society, Terrorism, US Defence Policy, RUSI Newsbrief, The Gulf Region, Defence Policy, Al-Qa'ida, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club
Rose Roth, language and youth
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions