Where’s Wagner Now? One Year after the Mutiny
Image credit/license Following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the August death of its primary contractor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a suspicious plane crash, it seemed that the…
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Kimberly Marten
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Professor; Political Science Department
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Barnard College, Columbia University
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Military, Security, Warlordism, Conflict Resolution, Counter-Terrorism, Non-State Armed Actors
President Putin’s Rationality and Escalation in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Prominent Western policy figures, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canada’s United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae, and retired U.S. National Security Advisor General H. R. McMaster, have recently questioned whether…
Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The French government has been taking a balanced and often supportive diplomatic and economic approach to Russia in recent years, so Moscow should logically be trying…
Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Yevgeny Prigozhin, the corrupt military contractor from St. Petersburg who funds the informal armed organization known as the Wagner Group, expanded his lucrative foreign adventures into…