Rusi Analysis Podcasts

Following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, RUSI Director General Dr Karin von Hippel assesses the victor's foreign policy priorities.

Following a reported deal between the United States and Russia to affect peace in Syria, Dr Karin von Hippel, Director General of RUSI offers her perspective on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. 

Was Barak Obama's strategy in Syria a disaster? Dr Karin von Hippel discusses the issue on BBC's Today programme on 20 August 2016.

A RUSI panel chaired by Sir Christopher Meyer, on the impact of the media on the EU referendum. With figures from across the political and media spectrum, as well as the regulatory bodies, RUSI hosted a wide-ranging discussion and try to cut through some of the mythology surrounding the media’s influence. The event was chaired by Sir Christopher Meyer, former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, and he was joined by the following journalists: Professor Roy Greenslade, City University London Peter Preston, The Guardian Tim Montgomerie, The Times

RUSI hosted the third RUSI-Ditchley Foundation roundtable, focusing on challenges posed by growing flows of migration to Europe. The panelists were former Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Charles Clarke now Visiting Professor, School of Politics, University of East Anglia, and former chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips OBE, now Director, WebberPhillips. More information about the event here: https://rusi.org/event/europe-and-migration-how-can-flows-be-managed

A briefing with Brigadier-General Ahmed al-Assiri, spokesman of the Arab coalition. Chaired by Sir Simon Mayall.

Dr Jonathan Eyal, Associate Director at RUSI discusses the European Summit and Britain's referendum to stay in the European Union with Professor Malcolm Chalmers, RUSI Deputy Director General, Elizabeth Quintana, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Military Sciences and Professor Trevor Taylor, Senior Research Fellow

In this episode of the RUSI Analysis Podcast, experts Peter Roberts, Edward Schwarck, Igor Sutyagin and Ewan Lawson debate whether the formulation of strategy really does have any implications in geopolitics. Does Vladimir Putin truly have a strategy, and does Russia need one to get what it really wants? Can Daesh’s strategy be understood by conventional Western thinking? And should states make their strategies clear to all, or keep their opponents guessing?  

On 15 June 2015, RUSI awarded Dr Henry Kissinger the 36th Chesney Gold Medal. 

In his lecture to RUSI, Field Marshal Bramall shared his thoughts on the changing face of conflict. Drawing on his unique personal experience of soldiering at every level, dating from his service in the Second World War, he considered how warfare has changed. More importantly, he also reminded us of the lessons we should have been drawing from that and will offer guidance for the future with regards to strategy and execution.   Field Marshal the Lord Bramall of Bushfield KG GCB OBE MC is a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff between 1979 and 1982. He was subsequently appointed Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, and served in that role from 1982 to 1985. After his retirement, Field Marshal Bramall served as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1986 to 1998. He was raised to the peerage in 1987 and further invested as a Knight of the Garter (the United Kingdom’s highest order of chivalry) in 1990.

This week, the RUSI Analysis Podcast examines corruption, and how money lost to it can be reclaimed. The issue's the subject of a paper called Plundering the Treasure Chest, published recently by RUSI. It highlights the relevance of corruption to global security, and the success of Western interventions. The research was written by the Deputy Director for RUSI's Defence, Industries and Society Programme, Dr John Louth - with Angela Barkhouse an associate director at Grant Thornton, the independent assurance, tax and advisory firm, and James Maton, a partner with Edwards Wildman Palmer solicitors. This collaboration between sectors is something they all want to see in the process of recovering monies lost by nation states to corruption.. or 'sovereign wealth recovery'.

Elizabeth Pearson speaks to Thomas Rid, a Reader in War Studies at King’s College, London, and he and colleague Peter McBurney recently wrote about cyberweapons for the RUSI Journal, setting out some pioneering new ideas about their use. I met Thomas Rid at King's to find out more.. and began by asking him if cyberweaponry was any easier to define than cyberwar..  Thomas Rid, Reader in War Studies at King's College London. Listen next time when I'll be finding out how corruption is risking global security.. and why the solution doesn't lie with the military or politicians alone

Security for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will include the deployment of more than thirteen thousand military personnel joining police and private security teams. The Government revised the Games' security budget up from £282m to £553m in December last year. So what is the terror threat likely to look like? And will the operation be a hindrance to long-term UK counter-terroris>

Defence spending cuts are rarely out of the news.  One of the ways of economising is for the UK's Ministry of Defence to spend money on so-called, 'off the shelf' systems.  But there could be problems with that.  In this podcast, Elizabeth Pearson talks to Dr John Louth, Deputy Head of RUSI's Defence Industries and Society Programme.  He's looked into the effects of buying off the shelf - and found it could be a false economy.  I began by asking Dr Louth about the current strategy for Defence buying.

http://www.rusi.org/analysis Lizz Pearson speaks with analyst Dominik Donald who recently wrote in the RUSI Journal analysing the piracy threat off the coast of Somalia.

Women from the highest ranks of defence forces from ten countries have been meeting at a conference to celebrate their achievement and discuss the issues they face. Lizz Pearson talks to the organisers of the conference and finds out that the issues are less about gender and more about sharing expertise.

In this RUSI Analysis podcast, we turn East to China, lately the focus of European financial hopes. Europe's leaders recently asked China to buy European Financial Stability Fund bonds, a move they hoped would bail Europe out of the financial crisis. But it seems not to have worked, so far. Alexander Neill, RUSI's Senior Research Fellow for Asia Studies discusses the significance of the request and its potential outcomes.

RUSI Director Professor Michael Clarke assesses the Libya military campaign after the fall of Qadhafi and the transition to a new Libyan government. He talks to Lizz Pearson and outlines RUSI's research into this intervention.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary addresses RUSI reflecting on the upheaval in the Middle East and challenges for foreign policy.