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His Majesty The King was present as RUSI celebrated His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent’s 90th birthday and half century of service as RUSI's president.

Allied hosting models often test sovereignty, resilience and interoperability; a recent exercise explored balancing these to enable future collective defence.

As Russia cements its broader foreign policy plans for a Greater Eurasia, the role of Belarus and North Korea will be instrumental in turning theory into supply-chain practice.

China’s repression of its Muslim citizens acts as a lightning rod for criticism of the country and its influence campaign in Central Asia.

Financial investigations are an essential investigative tool to pursue and deter important wildlife criminals. However, the challenges to strengthening financial investigations of wildlife crime in Central Africa are notable.

Edward Luce discusses how Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter, sought to bring down the USSR and end the Cold War by magnifying the Politburo’s dilemmas.

The US plan to withdraw some troops from NATO’s eastern flank, including Romania, is neither a surprise nor catastrophic. But it signals a shift in America’s posture at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

The long-delayed release of Nick Timothy’s 2023 review of Home Office effectiveness points to ongoing institutional dysfunctions. The creation of an independent cross-party commission could restore delivery discipline and reduce incentives to use immigration as a political weapon.

With three FIU (financial intelligence unit) leadership positions under his belt, and much more besides, Daniel Thelesklaf shares his varied and valued experience in tackling financial crime.

Official data show that violent crime has fallen, even as visible low-level offences and social media-fuelled perceptions of disorder continue to shape a growing sense of lawlessness and insecurity.

RUSI hosted it's fourth annual trilateral security dialogue with NUPI and the US-based CSIS on the security situation in the North Atlantic and High North on 29 October.

This paper studies the impact of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on global energy markets, with a particular focus on the vulnerabilities to which UK energy security is susceptible.

Trump’s revived ‘America First’ policy is reshaping US-Latin America ties, testing regional stability, governance and the balance between Washington, Beijing, and Moscow.

Five years ago, the Financial Action Task Force issued a call-to-arms for greater focus on the financial dimension of illegal wildlife trade. What results have been achieved?

This paper reports on the first meeting of the RUSI Cyber Sanctions Taskforce, focusing on the role of sanctions in countering cyber state threats, and highlighting their potential to disrupt malicious operations, impose costs on adversaries and reinforce international security strategies.

A UK trial of alleged Chinese spies has collapsed, averting a diplomatic flare-up with China but exposing the UK’s unresolved struggle to balance security with economic interdependence.

The election of Catherine Connolly as Ireland’s President will raise concerns in Europe about a shift in Ireland towards isolationism that stands at odds with the EU’s commitment to rapidly increase collective defence spending and defence cooperation.

Proposals to integrate the External Scrutiny Team into the Military Strategic Headquarters will undermine the only honest safeguard for transformation of the UK’s reserve forces.