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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.

Ukrainian forces have begun to develop novel approaches to combined arms manoeuvre, incorporating new capabilities, that bear scrutiny for NATO armies.

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.

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.

The war in Ukraine has diverted Russia’s resources and attention away from its own critical domestic security issues, creating uneven gaps in its ability to address terrorism, corruption, regional instability and the return of fighters from the war.

Why are more states and other actors turning to alternative financial systems, and how should stewards of the traditional financial system respond?

The financing of terrorism presents a complex and increasingly tech-enabled landscape. How should the counter-terrorist financing community adapt?

The shadow fleets of Russia, Iran and North Korea are in the international spotlight, but efforts to counter their operations will fail while these vessels can so easily obtain new flags.