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This Policy Brief presents practical considerations arising from RUSI's three-year project 'Organised Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Africa', which explores local perceptions and experiences of key security threats.

This Policy Brief considers how local perceptions can enrich understanding of the financial aspects of everyday insecurity in Mozambique and Nigeria.

This Policy Brief examines South Korea’s foreign policy trajectory and its relevance for the UK.

With a new German government taking office on 6 May 2025, this Policy Brief examines how the UK and Germany can maximise their new relationship to ensure that it delivers the most value to each of them and to European security.

This Policy Brief presents an assessment of the current UK system to counter illicit finance, the identification of key missing elements, and an analysis of implications and root causes of the UK's approach. It concludes with actions to drive improvement to the UK's illicit finance agenda.

This policy brief traces the emergence and defining features of the grey zone concept, looking at China’s actions and Taiwan’s responses.

This policy brief seeks to understand how the compliance systems of financial institutions have adapted in response to post-2022 trade restrictions on Russia.

This policy brief seeks to identify recommendations for governments, regulators and other international policymaking entities to design effective policies for preventing and countering violent extremism policies in gaming spaces, to enforce standards, and to support the development of capacity to moderate online harms.

This policy brief, written for authorities responsible for the risk-assessment process, aims to offer insight on five key challenges that jurisdictions face with a sectoral virtual asset risk assessment, and suggests potential considerations for overcoming these barriers.

This policy brief examines how countries have approached proliferation financing national risk assessments (NRAs), and advises jurisdictions on how to approach future NRAs.

This Policy Brief assesses the question of whether the updated Financial Action Task Force Recommendations 4 and 38 address weaknesses in asset recovery responses.

У цій аналітичній записці розглядається можливість використання віртуальних активів для спрощення надходження допомоги на нагальні потреби відбудови України.

This Policy Brief examines whether virtual assets can be used to facilitate donations to Ukraine’s urgent reconstruction efforts.

This Policy Brief examines how the Financial Action Task Force's standards have been abused or misused, and the impact of this abuse on civil society.

This Policy Brief outlines recommendations for the effective implementation of preventing/countering violent extremism programmes in conflict settings that draw on lessons learned from Afghanistan as part of RUSI’s Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism (STRIVE) Afghanistan programme.

This Policy Brief identifies common mechanisms by which professional service providers facilitate sanctions evasion and makes recommendations for how policymakers can work together to minimise the use of professional service providers to circumvent sanctions.

This Policy Brief examines India’s initial caution in embracing the role of the Indo-Pacific in India’s strategic outlook, the changing geopolitical circumstances that led New Delhi to adopt a more proactive approach, and how India’s Indo-Pacific strategy is impacting relationships with countries in the region, and the UK.

This Policy Brief seeks to explore how key partners in the Indo-Pacific have perceived and responded to recent North American and European efforts in the region.

This Policy Brief is a summary of the key lessons learned from a preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE) project in Kenyan universities. The brief offers recommendations for similar youth- or student-led interventions in a university setting.

This Policy Brief proposes six principles for a more dynamic and broadly based – and so more effective – China strategy.