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A wider understanding of the services and support that space can offer is needed across defence.

This paper highlights the Taliban’s perceptions, agendas and modes of operation to aid understanding of how to move forward with the question of future engagement with the Taliban.

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have come to the fore in recent years, developing organically alongside the steady decline in the transactional use of cash, the rise of cryptocurrency and the emergence of financial technology.

Alongside Ukraine, Belarus has for centuries been a significant part of Russia’s own history, both as part of an ancestral empire and – in Russia’s perception – as an extension of Russia’s own security space. The political and defence ties between Belarus and Russia have gained new prominence as a result of the war in Ukraine. But a nuanced understanding of this relationship suggests that Russia’s dependence on Belarus for logistical support and training could become a weakness.

With an increasing focus on far-right extremism globally, the threat both to and within the security forces must be considered. This paper addresses this challenge in the UK context, focusing on the police and military services, and offers practical guidance and recommendations.

This Emerging Insights paper assesses different mechanisms from which the UK can learn to allow for the return of proceeds of corruption.

This paper examines the understudied presence of the Islamic State for Central and South Asia (IS-K) on Afghanistan’s university campuses and the counterterrorism effort that the Taliban regime has mounted against it, asking how effective the Taliban’s efforts have been and whether IS-K has been able to adapt.

Extremism and terrorism motivated by far-right ideologies has captured the attention of policymakers and much of the public as an urgent threat to peace, security and democracy across much of the Western world. Through an analysis of the operational and organisational financing behaviours of the contemporary far right, this paper finds this financing threat to be largely incompatible with the counterterrorist financing (CTF) regime and identifies several shortcomings in the regime as it stands.

This paper outlines proliferation finance activity tied to the casino and gaming sector, as well as the emergence of new avenues of exploitation that authorities should analyse as part of their national risk assessment process.

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities Taiwan will need to consider for the military application of AI.

This paper investigates the reasons for limited transatlantic cooperation on China in three separate but related domains: economics; security; and the multilateral system and global norms.

This paper, intended for policymakers and those with compliance obligations, seeks to broaden the discussions of risk around cryptocurrency by providing a typology of risks related to cryptocurrency mining.

This Emerging Insights paper aims to explore how the same ideas and themes that are used by IS-K for recruitment and for ‘gluing’ members to the organisation might be recrafted for those members who are disengaging. The paper is primarily based on data collected during the STRIVE Afghanistan project, which RUSI implemented in 2019–24.