Emil Dall and Tom Keatinge
This paper seeks to establish the baseline for a discussion on proliferation finance in the (re)insurance sector. The insurance industry can play a vital role in contributing to the successful implementation of international sanctions and wider counter proliferation efforts against North Korea.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United Nations, Occasional Papers, North Korea, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Tom Keatinge
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) avoided a decision to return Iran to its blacklist of countries not doing enough to combat money laundering. Iran’s continued litany of financial crime failings further undermines the future of the country’s nuclear deal with Western governments.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Iran's Nuclear Programme, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United States, Iran, AML/CTF, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, International Institutions
Charles Parton
China was absent from the US-North Korea summit, but is a beneficiary of what has emerged from that gathering in Singapore.
Tags: China, International Security Studies, United States, North Korea, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Andrea Berger
With the ransacking of the British embassy in Tehran, the West has further shrunk its repository of policy options, leaving sanctions as the policy tool of choice. However, while sanctions may slow Iran's forays into the nuclear field, they are unlikely to divert their course entirely.
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Programme, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, Iran, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Middle East and North Africa
Andrea Berger
The Fukushima disaster earlier this year has raised many doubts about the feasibility of future nuclear energy programmes. This debate has been given greater prominence in Southeast Asia as developing states contend with the prospects of future energy shortages.
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, Global Security Issues, Technology, Pacific
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement