Location:RUSI, 61 Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
Start date:14/01/2025
End date:14/01/2025
Event Organiser:Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
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Web:https://my.rusi.org/events/tackling-the-growing-threat-from-hostile-states.html
From 5pm; drinks will be served from 18:30. In a research paper funded by the Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence (SOC ACE) Research Programme, RUSI Senior Associate Fellow Matthew Redhead seeks to understand and assess hostile activity, described in UK government policy as ‘state threats’. The paper examines the scale, scope and significance of the state threats landscape and considers trends, highlighting how states are diversifying, decentralising and experimenting in their secret statecraft. The paper also narrates how the use of state-to-state hostile activity is spreading, virus-like, from ‘usual suspects’ such as Russia and Iran to other authoritarian – and even some democratic – states, who view the exploitation of underhand methods as a cheap and effective way to pursue policy goals.
The event will include headline findings from the research, followed by a panel discussion. Introductory Speaker:
Professor Heather Marquette, Professor of Development Politics at the University of Birmingham and Director of the SOC ACE Research Programme
Panellists:
Professor Rory Cormac, Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism; and Matthew Redhead, Senior Associate Fellow, Centre for Finance and Security, RUSI.
