Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi is Senior Research Fellow at the International Security Studies department at RUSI. Her research is... read more
Sidharth Kaushal and Alexandra Stickings
RUSI held its 20th Missile Defence and Space Conference on 26 and 27 February 2020, at which issues around space as an operational domain were integrated into the programme for the first time. The immediate catalyst for this has been the proliferation of conventional threats to time-sensitive targets, the strains that these threats will place on traditional missile defence architectures, and...
Tags: Conference Reports, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues
Conrad Prince
The coronavirus pandemic has increased our reliance on the digital world and has highlighted five fundamental security challenges.
Tags: China, Cyber, Cyber Security, Defence Spending, UK, Domestic Security, Global Security Issues, Information, International Institutions, Law and Ethics, Technology
Frank Hoffman
Viewed from the other side of the Atlantic, the coronavirus crisis will have significant geopolitical implications in the near term, becoming possibly even more significant over the next few years.
Tags: China, Coronavirus, United States, US Defence Policy, Defence Spending, Russia, UK, Domestic Security, Global Security Issues, Terrorism
John Andreas Olsen
As NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announces the appointment of a group of experts to support his work in further strengthening the Alliance’s political dimension, this Commentary identifies six primary challenges.
Tags: United States, NATO, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Europe
Emily Ferris
Relations with Russia are one of the thorniest challenges for the UK’s Integrated Review. Here are a few ideas on how the UK should approach its troubled relationship with Moscow.
Tags: International Security Studies, Russia, UK
Sneha Dawda and Rebecca Lucas
Many states are using data in innovative ways to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. From track and trace capabilities to the use of telecommunications data for quarantine enforcement, we highlight some of these data-driven national responses and discuss potential implications.
Tags: Coronavirus, Cyber, Cyber Security, Information, Law and Ethics, Technology, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa
Justinas Juozaitis
With the Baltic states on-track to become independent from centralised Russian control over their power networks, the Kremlin has demonstrated an alarming potential to disconnect them from its power grid before they are ready to join the continental European network.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Russia, Modern Deterrence, Global Security Issues
Emily Ferris
Ageing railways, poor-quality roads and an inadequate response by the authorities to calls for basic services are the weak underbelly of the Russian infrastructure system.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, International Security Studies, Russia, Domestic Security, Global Security Issues
Sébastien Gobert
How newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy responds to Moscow’s provision of Russian passports to residents in occupied Donbas will not only set the tone for his administration’s foreign policy, but could seriously unsettle Putin’s project of consolidating a sphere of influence in the post-Soviet region.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Ukraine, Russia, Global Security Issues
Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC on the the lessons of the Gallipoli Campaign and combined operations.
Tags: Defence Policy, UK, Global Security Issues
An 'in-conversation' style event with Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO.
Tags: UK, Middle East and North Africa
The Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) in partnership with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is pleased to host prominent Turkish security expert, Dr Metin Gurcan.
Tags: Turkey, International Security Studies
The Threat From Far-Right Extremist Violence is Rising – How Can P/CVE Education Activities Be Part of the Strategy to Counter it?
From Japan: A View of ‘Global Britain’ and the UK Integrated Review
China in Africa’s Looking Glass: Perceptions and Realities