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Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux unpacks for @FT the anticipated shortfalls of upcoming new sanctions against Russian paramilitaries, including #WagnerGroup successors. What sort of approach to sanctions might find more success? Read here: ft.com/content/58f862… #Russia #Kremlin #NationalSecurity
🚨 New in the @FT : Congress is finally moving beyond the “Wagner” label and confronting the broader paramilitary ecosystem sustaining Putin’s war. But an FTO designation alone won’t stop it.
As conflicts increasingly unfold in gray zones, understanding how proxy forces operate is essential for anticipating future security risks and governance failures. Listen to the full discussion on #Booknotes by @cspan to hear from @CandaceRondeaux about her work on #Russia, irregular warfare, and global security. 3/3 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can…
Private military companies like #WagnerGroup blur the line between state and non-state violence. This creates legal, political, and strategic challenges that remain underappreciated in Western policy debates. 2/3
Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux joined @cspan’s #Booknotes podcast to discuss Putin’s Sledgehammer, her deep dive into the #WagnerGroup and what its rise reveals about how modern states wield deniable force. 1/3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can…
Digital sovereignty starts w/ infrastructure, not algorithms. When the US & China control every layer of AI infrastructure, where’s the agency for emerging economies? Watch highlights from @PlanetaryPol's third annual Digital Futures Symposium. 🛰️ More: go.newamerica.org/ai-africa-tech…
Late last year, I traveled to Cape Town just ahead of the #G20 summit to co-host our Digital Futures Symposium. 🌍✈️ The message from the room was blunt: Africa’s AI future won’t be decided by slogans about sovereignty, but by who controls infrastructure. ⚡🤖
The #EU just crossed a line it long avoided: designating #Iran’s #IRGC as a terrorist organization. This a legal strike at the gray-zone networks funding autocracy & war. Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux digs into these closing loopholes for @WPReview. 🔗 worldpoliticsreview.com/eu-iran-irgc-s…
Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux weighs in on the capture of Nicolás #Maduro: what does this risky geopolitical move mean for the shadow oil economy?
🧵When Donald #Trump ordered the capture of Nicolás #Maduro on Jan. 3, it was framed as a #Venezuela story. It is also, of course, a Russia story. I laid out the political side of it in .@WorldPoliticsRev: 👉 worldpoliticsreview.com/venezuela-trum…
What does #USA intervention in #Venezuela mean for global security? @RepKweisiMfume and Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux join @WEAA's Today With Dr. Kaye to unpack the geopolitical stakes and the risks of escalation. Listen here: weaa.org/show/today-wit…
The #USA is turning shadow oil shipping into a new front line of great-power competition. The question, argues Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux for @WPReview, is whether Washington has a strategy for what's next. 🔗 Read: worldpoliticsreview.com/venezuela-trum… #Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #Putin
.#Ukraine needs money fast. #Europe hesitated for years on frozen Russian assets, creating a vacuum. Now, von der Leyen is pushing a massive loan plan. Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux digs into what’s really driving the shift for @WPReview. 🔗 Read here: worldpoliticsreview.com/russia-ukraine…
Profit-seeking fixers are reshaping #Russia-#Ukraine diplomacy. It’s a danger to any lasting peace. New must-read analysis from Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux in @FinancialTimes — read here 🔗 ft.com/content/fb8031…
Thrilled to see Putin’s Sledgehammer by @CandaceRondeaux named one of the Washington Independent Review of Books' favorites of 2025. Read the full list here: washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our-5…
“Without social media like Twitter and Facebook,” argued @CandaceRondeaux at @NewAmericaISP's 2025 #FutureSecurityForum, “there would be no #WagnerGroup.” Wagner’s power lies not only in arms but in narrative — the viral machinery of war in the digital age. 4/4
For autocrats, power is performance. Mobilization becomes a marketing exercise as much as a military one. #Prigozhin’s innovation: selling war as identity. A “special forces” aesthetic — regalia, symbols, myth — to recruit loyalty beyond pay. 3/4
To understand the rise of the #WagnerGroup, @CandaceRondeaux argues, we must first understand the #Russia that #Putin inherited in 2000 — a state where power flows through personalities, not institutions. 🧵 1/4
Washington just sanctioned the "backbone" of the Russian economy. Senior Director @CandaceRondeaux breaks down why that's a big deal. x.com/CandaceRondeau…
1/ This is Igor Sechin — CEO of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest allies from their KGB-era St. Petersburg days. Yesterday, his company was hit with the U.S.’s toughest sanctions yet. And that’s a big deal. 🧵
1/ This is Igor Sechin — CEO of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest allies from their KGB-era St. Petersburg days. Yesterday, his company was hit with the U.S.’s toughest sanctions yet. And that’s a big deal. 🧵
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