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UK Sanctions Policy: A Progress Report
Commentary, 18 February 2021
Emil Dall
With Brexit and the transition period over, the UK has formally embarked on its independent sanctions regime. What work has been completed so far and what remains to be done?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Europe
5G and Emerging Technology: The Politics of Diversification
Commentary, 15 February 2021
James Sullivan
The UK government must learn quickly from its policy decisions around its 5G networks, and start grappling much earlier with risks posed by other emerging technologies.
Tags: Cyber Security, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Technology
Unexplained Wealth Orders in the UK: What Will This Year Bring?
Commentary, 11 February 2021
Anton Moiseienko
Unexplained wealth orders are now being used to tackle criminal wealth in the UK, but they are more complicated and less powerful in practice than in popular imagination.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
The UK Government Must Treat Fraud as a Threat to National Security
Commentary, 9 February 2021
Ardi Janjeva
As fraud in the UK continues to grow, the government must do more to counter this invisible threat.
Tags: Organised Crime and Policing, UK, National Security
The Personal Costs of War: Illustrated by the 2014 England Football Squad
RUSI Journal, 8 February 2021
Jo Spear
Contemporary football provides a reminder of the multinational nature of British society and its historical war effort.
Tags: The Great War, UK, History
"Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, noted that the US move followed a similar decision by Italy at the end of January. “All this builds up pressure on the UK to reconsider its own position, but it is unclear if will be enough to force a change in policy,” she said. "
UK urged to follow US in restricting arms sales to Saudi Arabia
In The News, 5 February 2021 Tags: International Security Studies, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Americas, UK, EuropePages
Poland’s Decisive Role in Cracking Enigma and Transforming the UK’s SIGINT Operations
Commentary, 27 January 2021Tony Comer
Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence.
UK, History, Intelligence
The Biden Presidency: What Role for the UK on Iran?
Commentary, 22 January 2021Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Darya Dolzikova and Tom Plant
UK and US policy towards Iran has diverged substantially in recent years, and both countries need to work hard to restore their partnership. The UK can do its part through a re-energised agenda on the Iran nuclear file, and towards Middle Eastern security more broadly.
Iranian Nuclear Pathways, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran, UK
Time for a New UK–US Relationship
Commentary, 19 January 2021Peter Roberts
With the arrival of each new US president, the incumbent UK prime minster hopes to revitalise the UK–US ‘special relationship’ in defence and security. It has largely been missing in action since the heady days of the Reagan–Thatcher relationship.
UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UK
The Future of UK–EU Security Cooperation
Commentary, 18 January 2021Julian King and John Scarlett
The agreement governing future relations between the UK and the EU has addressed only some of the serious questions about future security cooperation. Many challenges lie ahead, and goodwill, as well as attention to detail will be required by both sides.
UK Integrated Review 2021, Brexit, UK, National Security, Europe
The UK Should Align with Biden in the Indo-Pacific
Commentary, 14 January 2021David Hutt
Having failed to beat the EU to the Indo-Pacific, and with US–EU relations less than ideal ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration this month, the UK could carve out a niche in Asia by aligning with US policy.
UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UKPages
The Defence Industry and Europe in 2017
Multimedia, 21 December 2016RUSI Director of Defence, Industries and Society, Dr John Louth looks at how changing US attitudes to defence and security following the election of Donald Trump could see the growth of both European...
Tags: Defence, Industries and Society, United States, UK, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Europe
Assessing Theresa May's First International Summit
Multimedia, 7 September 2016The British Prime Minister Theresa May attended her first international forum at the G20 Summit in China between 4-5 September. RUSI Deputy Director-General Professor Malcolm Chalmers and Dr Jonathan...
Tags: European Union, UK, International Institutions
Brexit Decision: What Next for the UK?
Multimedia, 24 June 2016Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General of the Royal United Services Institute gives his reaction to the Brexit decision and what this means for the UK and her place in the world.
Tags: Brexit, UK, Europe
Liam Fox on the case for leaving the European Union
Multimedia, 29 April 2016Former defence secretary Liam Fox makes the case for #Brexit and outlines how the UK could operate internationally if it leave the UK. "This is is not us leaving Europe, it is us rejoining the rest...
Tags: UK, Europe
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A Reckoning Postponed? The Defence Arithmetic of the Integrated Review
Occasional Papers, 29 October 2020Malcolm Chalmers
The coronavirus pandemic has jeopardised the UK's planned Comprehensive Spending Review. While an interim review might seem justified, key decisions on major defence projects cannot be postponed for...
UK Integrated Review 2021, Defence Spending, Occasional Papers, Equipment and Acquisitions, UK, UK Defence
The UK and Illicit Finance: Still Part of the Problem, Not Part of the Solution
RUSI Newsbrief, 23 October 2020Tom Keatinge
The UK has lost its global leadership of the fight against illicit finance. The Johnson government must get the UK back on track.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, UK
Countering CBRN at Home and Abroad
Conference Reports, 14 October 2020Jack Watling
A report from RUSI's virtual conference on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.
Military Sciences, Conference Reports, UK, Global Security Issues
The Case for Joint Military–Industry Greyzone Exercises
Briefing Papers, 28 September 2020Elisabeth Braw
This Briefing Paper suggests that joint military–industry exercises can help build resilience against the increasing number of greyzone attacks that liberal democracies are facing.
Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Briefing Papers, UK, National Security, Resilience
Beyond the Disarmament Impasse: How Europe Perceives the UK’s Disarmament Verification Efforts
Occasional Papers, 24 September 2020Cristina Varriale
This paper uses survey data to examine the extent to which the UK’s prioritisation of disarmament verification is perceived by the European NPT community to be a valuable contribution to the...
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Occasional Papers, UK, EuropePages
UK Security Policy: National Institutions and the Gap between Expert and Public Opinion
Events, 19 September 2017The conference will discuss the findings from a three-year study of elite foreign policy attitudes and security policy preferences, comparing the views of the UK elite with their American...
RUSI International, United States, UK, Global Security Issues
A Financial Approach to Policing Organised Crime
Events, 12 September 2017This event will examine the use of financial investigation and financial tools in policing as a means of tackling organised crime.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Policing and Security, UK, Domestic Security, National Security, Organised Crime
Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Events, 11 September 2017RUSI hosted a panel to discuss Prof Theo Farrell’s new book ‘Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014’.
Military Sciences, Afghanistan, UK, UK Defence
RUSI MEMBERS ONLY: Defence Innovation and the UK: Responding to the Risks Identified by the US Third Offset Strategy
Events, 10 July 2017This event will launch an occasional paper addressing policy options relating to the UK's response to the threats, risks and opportunities identified by the US Third Offset Strategy.
Defence, Industries and Society, UK
BY INVITATION ONLY: Sanctions and Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities for UK Sanctions Policy
Events, 10 July 2017RUSI is pleased to invite you to this event examining the future of UK sanctions policy following Brexit, kindly hosted by Dechert LLP.
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Sanctions, UK, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, EuropePages
"James Sullivan, the head of cyber research at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute in London, says that risks to 5G networks can be protected through new and inventive ways. “People talk about 5G being revolutionary, but I don't think that’s true at this moment. It’s more evolutionary. 5G builds on top of 4G,” he says. Sullivan believes that the measures used to secure 4G networks can still apply, in many instances, to 5G networks.“It’s just about doing them well, and in a different way,” he added “I just don’t think it really stands up when suddenly we draw a line in the sand and say, everything you've been doing before no longer applies.And it’s now suddenly the Wild West and you’re in the 5G network and you do what you want. I just don't think that stands up.""
5G - France weighs the odds between the promise of billions and Huawei’s risks
In The News, 19 February 2020 Tags: Cyber Security, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, UK
"Alexandria Reid, national security studies researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, has long criticised free ports for harbouring illegal activity. She says: “It is positive that the Government is taking an evidence-based approach. But a consultation is only useful if the Government listens to the evidence it receives. "
Business focus: Fears grow over new Chancellor's tax-lite free ports push
In The News, 19 February 2020 Tags: Organised Crime and Policing, UK, Maritime Forces, Organised Crime, Europe
"In this episode of Dollar & Sense, David Dollar is joined by Tom Keatinge to discuss the ramifications Brexit will have on the United Kingdom’s use of financial sanctions and regulation of financial crime."
How will the UK use financial sanctions in a post-Brexit world?
In The News, 18 February 2020 Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Brexit, UK, Europe
"The role of police and security services is to protect the public, but we need to be honest that they can only suppress and control terrorist threats – not solve the ideology or theology that underpins them."
Dangerous terrorists like Sudesh Amman should stay behind bars
In The News, 4 February 2020 Tags: UK Counter-terrorism, Tackling Extremism, UK, Intelligence, National Security, Terrorism, Europe
"“It’s in the U.S. gift to accept that even if we disagree in the details, we agree on the fundamentals and move on to the much more important issue of developing western vendors” for 5G telecommunication networks, said Malcolm Chalmers, a former U.K. diplomat and now deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, in a briefing."
U.S. Threats Prove Hollow for a Friend in Need of Huawei
In The News, 28 January 2020 Tags: Cyber, Cyber Security, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, UK
Trailer: Global Security Briefing Podcast Series
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