War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv
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Catrina Doxsee, Associate Director and Associate Fellow for the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), outlines the relationship between Wagner and the Russian state, why PMCs are not likely to be legalized in Russia, founding and evolution of Wagner, changes in Prigozhin's behavior, and global security implications of Wagner actiivty beyond Russia.
'The fact that PMCs are not legal in Russia... gives Putin a tremendous amount of leverage over those PMCs...'
'You have dissent within the ranks... as [Wagner] brings in populations out of prisons there's an intense social stigma between non-prisoners and prisoners in the ranks - as well as between the prisoners themselves given the very strict hierarchy socially in Russian prisons...'
Catrina Doxsee on Putin's Proxies: Examining Russia's Use of Private Military Companies
Catrina Doxsee and Jared Thompson on The Wagner Group's Mounting Humanitarian Cost in Mali
Jared Thompson, Catrina Doxsee and Joseph Bermudez on Tracking the Arrival of Russia's Wagner Group in Mali
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Catrina Doxsee on twitter: @catrinadoxsee
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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81:KYIV UPDATE: Oleksandr Kraiev on the bombing of Olenivka prison, treatment of Ukrainian POWs and reaction to these events in Ukraine
80. ANALYSIS: Brian Taylor on ’The code of Putinism’ - Key ideas that drive Putin and those around him; was Putin’s rise to power inevitable; and the war in Ukraine as ’Putin’s war’
79. VIEW FROM UKRAINE: Ivan Shmatko and Dafna Rachok on Ukrainian society, politics & identity - treatment of vulnerable groups, & divergence of Ukrainian and Russian identity, society and politics
78. ANALYSIS: Zofia Stemplowska on the ’NATO enlargement’ argument - why this argument is problematic and an alternate perspective
77. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali on day of Ukrainian statehood, Ukrainian identity since the full-scale invasion, Russian propoganda & conditions in occupied Mariupol
76. ANALYSIS: Volodymyr Dubovyk on Ukraine-Russia recent grain export deal, Russian missile strikes on Odessa’s port, Ukraine’s motivations for the deal and chances of success
75. DEEP DIVE: Michael Mandelbaum on The Four Ages of US Foreign Policy - continuities in US foreign policy; entry into and exit from wars; unique aspect of US support for Ukraine in the current war
74. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali on Ukraine counteroffensive: importance of Kherson, possible timeline & significance of 11 September election in Russia
73. ANALYSIS: Paul Poast on realism and the war in Ukraine - questioning the ’NATO expansion’ explanation and providing an alternate view
72. ANALYSIS: Mart Kuldkepp on Estonia, Baltic states, Baltic Sea security and the war in Ukraine
71. ANALYSIS: Political theorists Avia Pasternak and Zofia Stemplowska discuss sanctions on Russia, population-costs, avoiding harm, and when sanctions are justified
70. ANALYSIS: Amb. Steven Pifer on Ukraine-US relations - implications of Ukraine giving up nukes in the 1990s; Ukraine’s economy and reconstruction; and US support since Feb 24
69. ANALYSIS: Michael Doyle on liberal peace theory and the Ukraine conflict - restraint, regime type, economic integration, national self-determination and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
68. ANALYSIS: John Blaxland on the Ukraine conflict & the Asia-Pacific region - China, India, Australia, the QUAD security dialogue, and the AUKUS deal
67. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali responds to Russian occupation of Lysychansk & Russian withdrawal from Snake Island
66. VIEW FROM UKRAINE: Ivan Shmatko and Dafna Rachok on war, invasion, civil society mobilization and Ukraine’s resolve
65. LEADERSHIP: Toby Newstead and Suze Wilson on character, virtues and Zelensky’s leadership
64. ANALYSIS: Jamie Shea - former NATO official - responds to NATO 2022 Strategic Concept, Russia’s invasion, NATO’s response, and what Swedish and Finnish membership means for the alliance.
63. ANALYSIS: Volodymyr Dubovyk on US-Ukraine relations - a view from Ukraine
62. ANALYSIS: Matthew Light on post-Soviet states and the Ukraine conflict - trajectories of post-Soviet states, the Baltics, Kazhakstan, Russian-speaking populations, NATO’s role and more
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