Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi is Senior Research Fellow at the International Security Studies department at RUSI. Her research is... read more
Sarah Martin and Nick Reynolds
Officials from Donald Trump’s administration have now announced that the US will formally withdraw in six months from the Open Skies Treaty. The viability of multilateral confidence- and security-building measures is called into question.
Tags: Aerospace, United States, US Defence Policy, Russia, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Intelligence, Europe
Kamal Alam
The Russians appear to be expressing dissatisfaction with the Syrian president. But these are mere rumblings; the Syrian government is consolidating, and Russia is there to stay.
Tags: Turkey, Iran, The Gulf Region, Russia, Syria
Dheeraj P C and Trivun Sharma
The coronavirus outbreak has caused a severe crisis in the EU. More than the early warning systems, it is the political and economic disunity within the Union that requires urgent attention.
Tags: China, Coronavirus, RUSI Newsbrief, European Union, Global Security Issues, Information, Intelligence, Europe
Sarah Martin and Nick Reynolds
Officials from Donald Trump’s administration have now announced that the US will formally withdraw in six months from the Open Skies Treaty. The viability of multilateral confidence- and security-building measures is called into question.
Tags: Aerospace, United States, US Defence Policy, Russia, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Intelligence, Europe
Kamal Alam
The Russians appear to be expressing dissatisfaction with the Syrian president. But these are mere rumblings; the Syrian government is consolidating, and Russia is there to stay.
Tags: Turkey, Iran, The Gulf Region, Russia, Syria
Tom Keatinge and Joel Rogers de Waal
Public opinion on paying hostage-takers reflects a broader contradiction between principle and practice.
Tags: United States, Germany, France, UK, Domestic Security, Global Security Issues, Law and Ethics, Terrorism
Dheeraj P C and Trivun Sharma
The coronavirus outbreak has caused a severe crisis in the EU. More than the early warning systems, it is the political and economic disunity within the Union that requires urgent attention.
Tags: China, Coronavirus, RUSI Newsbrief, European Union, Global Security Issues, Information, Intelligence, Europe
Kenneth Freeman
If the US was to invade Iran, how much money, equipment and personnel would be required? This article suggests that the costs would be prohibitive and other methods of managing relations with Iran should be explored.
Tags: United States, US Defence Policy, Iran, RUSI Newsbrief, Global Security Issues
Walter Ladwig
Bilateral cooperation between the US and India has expanded in key areas, but the relationship increasingly rests on unstable foundations.
Tags: United States, US Defence Policy, RUSI Newsbrief, India, Global Security Issues
Peggy Hollinger, International Business Editor at the Financial Times discusses a new RUSI paper authored by Trevor Taylor and John Louth. The paper suggests that the UK needs a speedier defence...
Armed Forces, Defence Spending, Defence, Industries and Society, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Policy, UK, UK Defence, Europe
All governments dealing with Covid-19 are working out ways to involve the public and enlist volunteer support. Elisabeth Braw proposes ways to involve teenagers in resilience training.
Coronavirus, Modern Deterrence, Military Sciences, Global Security Issues
In this episode Karin talks to Sir John Scarlett about his career in the British Secret Intelligence Service, including his time as Chief. They discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and even...
The decade after 9/11, The War on Terror, Defence Policy, UK, Intelligence, International Institutions, Terrorism, Europe
Last week RUSI Director-General, Dr Karin von Hippel, and Deputy Director-General, Professor Malcolm Chalmers, attended the Munich Security Conference.
Global Security Issues
Researchers at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with RUSI, are conducting a survey among foreign policy and security elites in the United Kingdom. Members of RUSI and its extended network...
UK, Global Security Issues, International Institutions
On 19 January Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former UK Foreign Secretary, and Dr Igor Ivanov, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, spoke at RUSI’s first Russia- UK bilateral on...
International Security Studies, Russia, UK, Global Security Issues
An online briefing from experts of the Royal United Services Institute on the impact of Covid-19 on the UK/China relationship.
Tags: China, Coronavirus, International Security Studies, UK
RUSI experts offer their assessments on the impact of Covid-19 in Africa
Tags: Coronavirus, Horn of Africa, International Security Studies, Africa
RUSI experts offered their assessments on the impact of Covid-19 in the Middle East.
Tags: Coronavirus, Middle East and North Africa
The Open Skies Treaty and Prospects for European Confidence-Building Measures
Not the ‘Spirit of Wuhan’: Skirmishes Between India and China
The Global Pushback against China: Australia Leads the Way