A conversation with Dr Aaron Bateman, exploring his research on the history of accelerating superpower military competition in space during the late Cold War and thereafter.
Research across different geographies has increasingly reshaped how the relationship between militancy, criminality and legitimacy is understood, with important implications for conflict prevention and peace-making.
While the current peace proposal for Gaza, authored by Israel and the US, no longer includes displacement of Palestinians to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, Cairo is right to be concerned such an idea is a live consideration.
An address by His Excellency Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum and Founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation.
The United Nations is now 80, and its long slide toward irrelevance appears unstoppable. The design of the Security Council has become a recipe for paralysis, but that is only the start of the organisation's problems.
Join Neil Melvin and former Ukrainian Defence Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk as they analyse the current state of the war in Ukraine on this podcast episode.
Much of the language coming out of the gathering of US military leaders this week could be dismissed as political spectacle. But international partners of the US should take seriously the US Administration’s views both on the utility of force, and its casual approach to its application domestically.
Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Peru are preparing their fleets to secure resources and expand influence in the event of rivalries spilling into their maritime domains.
North Korea has long been believed to have a chemical weapons programme. In this assessment of North Korea's chemical imports, particularly materials that could be used for chemical warfare production, insights can be gained into North Korea’s procurement networks and the challenges of monitoring dual-use goods.
The return of UNSC sanctions on Iran and Tehran’s reaction will define the future of Iran's nuclear programme. But more than that, the lead-up and reactions to 'snapback' highlight and contribute to a broader crisis of legitimacy of international institutions.
This is a written summary of the workshop held at RUSI on 24 July 2025 on the UK as a military space power with the Commander of UK Space Command Major General Paul Tedman.
The Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK involves major investments into the UK tech ecosystem by US big tech. While a win for Labour’s AI ambitions, courting US Big Tech may risk jeopardising British regulatory power and enhance dependencies.
In the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are facing a confluence of escalating ecological, political, economic, technological, and existential crises, each of which is reinforcing the others. The situation requires a fundamentally different set of values, not mere technocratic fixes.
Europe's defence industry needs investment to meet growing security demands. The real problems are not ESG standards, but bureaucracy, banks' reputational concerns and the general defence market.
Often touted as the gold standard in national security strategy making, 1953’s Project Solarium was President Eisenhower’s way of developing a strategy to counter Soviet expansionism. With frequent current calls for a new Project Solarium, was the original project a versatile solution or was it particular to Eisenhower’s presidency? Professor Walter Hudson explains.
