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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/58f862ae-b4a9… #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.
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
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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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/vene…
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-with-dr-…
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/vene… #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/russ…
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/fb80318b-1250…
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: washingtonindependentreviewo…
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
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
“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
Washington just sanctioned the "backbone" of the Russian economy.
Senior Director @CandaceRondeaux breaks down why that's a big deal.
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