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'Given his past affinity with the Gulf monarchies, it is entirely plausible that Donald Trump’s foreign policy will empower those responsible for transforming Sudan’s war into a proxy conflict' writes Michael Jones.

🎙President-elect Trump has famously claimed he can end the Ukraine war in a day. In the latest episode of Global Security Briefing, host Neil Melvin sits down with Professor Mark Galeotti, Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and Director of Mayak Intelligence, and Andriy Zagorodnyuk, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Centre for Defence Strategies think-tank, to discuss if this could be the beginning of the end of the fighting in Ukraine: bit.ly/4eNVr59

📅Join us on 10 December for the launch of a new research paper written by RUSI's Eliza Lockhart, supported by SOC ACE Research Programme, on the impact of financial rewards for whistleblowers in the fight against economic crime, and a panel discussion on the importance of boosting economic crime detection and deterrence. Panelists will include: ◾Nicholas Ephgrave QPM, Director, Serious Fraud Office (UK) ◾Susan Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption ◾Eliza Lockhart, Research Fellow, Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI ◾ Judith Seddon, Partner, Ashurst

In today's RUSI Commentary, Dr Burcu Ozcelik highlights the threat to Jordan’s delicate role as a stabilising Middle Eastern ‘buffer state’ from regional instability, domestic discontent, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4g7zhfx

How would the deterrent posture of NATO and its European members be impacted in the event of a crisis in the Indo-Pacific? Download our new report to learn more: bit.ly/4g2IDc6

Returning to the White House in 2025, Trump 2.0 promises a renewed age of discord and dysfunction; and it has perhaps already begun with his nominations for Director of the CIA and Director of National Intelligence, writes Dr Ronan Mainprize in the latest RUSI Commentary.

'While the southern border will be a major security issue for Trump, it would be shortsighted not to attend to the root causes of the insecurities flowing north via Central America' writes Dr Carlos Solar in the latest RUSI Commentary.

📅 Ahead of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) leaders’ meeting in Tallinn, join us on 9 December when we will evaluate the first decade of JEF, assess its reaction to Russia’s war against Ukraine, and discuss its potential future. Register to attend below.

New RUSI Special Resource, ‘Guide to Conducting a National Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment: 2024’ by Dr Aaron Arnold and Dr Daniel Salisbury out now! In May 2019, we released the ‘Guide to Conducting a National Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment’ to provide guidance to policymakers on identifying and responding to proliferation financing threats. Jurisdictions around the world have relied on the guide to understand key obligations, identify, and assess proliferation financing threats, and mitigate risk. However, new technologies and payment platforms are reshaping proliferation financing, and we have updated our guide to account for a fuller range of threats. Head over to our website to learn more.

🗞Tensions between the West and Russia over the past decade have led to attempts at sabotage and destabilisation across Western countries, but modern realities can affect both the modes of recruitment and the modes of attack. Become a RUSI Member today and get exclusive access to the just-released RUSI Journal issue which looks at new challenges for intelligence and counter-intelligence, and also includes a special feature on AI and geopolitics: https://bit.ly/3B0I6bR