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Commissioned analysis has typically been sought by clients requiring professional, up-to-the minute briefings focussed on specific regions or business sectors on which to base key assessments of future risks, options and opportunities. To achieve this, CSi has brought together bespoke teams of experts who, while varying in age, nationality and profession, share the ability to contribute significant, contemporary and often unique insights to written reports overseen, edited and signed off by the Directors. Recent clients have included UK and US government agencies, management consultants, international accountancy and finance firms. Looking forward, the work of the CSi is attracting strong interest from organisations with international interests in banking, law, infrastructure, energy and utilities.
On 17th October 2017 CSi was granted charitable status. The objects of the Charity are to advance education in relation to international security and intelligence issues by supporting graduate students studying Security and Intelligence related subjects in the Universities of Cambridge and London.
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Resources
CSi’s cadre of experts synthesise global events, breaking news, and policy shifts to determine real-world impacts to international business and regional power dynamics. Click on the updates below to read more.
Spy and Tell: The Promise and Peril of Disclosing Intelligence for Strategic Advantage
Professor David V. Gioe, King’s College London and Michael J. Morrell
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Biden Victory challenges Russia in post-Soviet space
IRAN: Limited retaliation for assassination of nuclear scientists likely
Navalny crackdown will bring Europe, America closer
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IRAN: Threatening to restart Nuclear Weapons Program
The Temperature in Washington
IRAN-AZERBAIJAN: Escalation unlikely, but tensions to continue
Fighting Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Threatens Regional Stability
IRAN: What id the JCPOA collapses?
‘New’ U.S. Strategy in Central Asia Lacks Originality, Reality
Coronavirus Impacts CIS-China Relations
Dr. Tracey German, King’s College London, and Dr. Victor Madeira
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Georgia Faces Continued Instability as Elections Near
Uzbekistan Flirts With China, Russia
Gas, Influence Spur Russia's Eastern Mediterranean Mediation Move
Iran Views Abraham Accord as a Strategic Threat, Opts for Restraint in Light of U.S. Elections
Georgia: Countdown to 2020 Parliamentary Elections Raising Tensions
Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030- Progress and Problems
Dr. Dina Rezk, University of Reading
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Iran: Recent Incidents Likely a Coordinated String of Deliberate Attacks
Russian Recession Hiding Behind Doctored Figures
COVID-19 Refuels Familiar Geopolitical Conspiracies in the Middle East
Iran: Prisoner Swaps Do Not Portend Diplomatic Opening
Saudi Arabia Using Pandemic to Save Face in Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition’s April decision to declare a unilateral ceasefire in the long-running Yemen war allows Riyadh an opportunity to retrench in light of falling oil prices and the domestic strain of a COVID-19 outbreak that has prompted the government to close Mecca during Ramadan…(read more)
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Iraq Eking Through 2020’s “Perfect Storm”
Since 2003, the political system in Iraq has weathered many storms, including insurgency (2003- 2006; 2014-2017), civil war (2006-2008), oil price crashes (2015, 2018), and mass-scale protests (2015-16; 2019-present). Today, the system is facing its greatest set of challenges yet, thanks to the addition of the Coronavirus pandemic and plummeting oil prices. (read more)
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U.S. Navy Operations Assert Right to Arctic
Dr. Tracey German
Surface ships from the U.S. 6th Fleet sailed into the Barents Sea earlier this month for the first time since the Cold War. A joint U.S.-UK surface action group (SAG), comprising four U.S. vessels and one from the Royal Navy, were in the Barents Sea as part of a planned anti- submarine exercise…(read more)
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Muhammad Bin Salman- Costs of Breaking With Tradition
Disinformation Will Continue to Roil Western Society and the 2020 Elections
Covid- 19 Ravaging Iran Amidst Growing Legitimacy Crisis
Iran's Upcoming Majlis Elections Unlikely to Result in Redistribution of Power
John Raine CMG OBE, Senior Advisor for Geopolitical Due Diligence at IISS
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Russia Concedes on Weak Oil Deal but Prices Still Drop
Dr. Victor Madeira
The Implications of the U.S.-Iran Dispute on Iraq
Dr. Renad Mansour, Research Fellow at Chatham House
Russia Eyes Arctic Opportunities
National Interest, Drought Driving Russian Grain Sales
Russia Dangles 'Donbas- For- Dam' Deal
Islamic State Strategic Priorities in 2020: Returning to Local Activities
Iraq’s New Prime Minister Will Not Be A Fix
Dr. Renad Mansour, Research Fellow at Chatham House
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Russian Economy Unprepared for EU Carbon Tax Shocks
Dr. Victor Madeira
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Oman's New Sultan Chosen to Face Modern Challenges
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Saudi Arabia MBS Maneuvers Loyalists into Key Aramco and Government Positions
Saudi Arabia: Aramco's Politicized Valuation
Russia Seeks to Capitalise on U.S. Disengagement in Africa
Dr. Tracey German, King’s College London
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Gas Deal ‘Concessions’ Play to European Pro-Russia Lobby
‘Apple Law’ Bans Won't Help Russian Consumers, Businesses
Russia 'Embarrassed' Twice in a Week by CN Media
No Russian Internet ‘Kill-Switch’ Anytime Soon
Egypt: Protests and Political Upheaval
Dr. Dina Rezk, University of Reading
Russia, Iran Still Partners of Convenience Post-Suleimani
Iraqi Protests Unlikely to Yield Meaningful Changes
Report on Qatar
Saudi Arabia: Implications of Aramco IPO
Report on Gulf Tensions
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