Raffaello Pantucci is the director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). His research focuses on counterterrorism as well as China’s relations with its Western neighbors. Prior to joining RUSI, Pantucci lived in China, where he was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Before that, he worked in London at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He has also held positions at the European Council of Foreign Relations, and he is an associate fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London. He is the author of “We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain's Suburban Terrorists.”