Kimberly Marten

President Putin’s Rationality and Escalation in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) 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,…

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Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Just when you think you know where Russia’s Wagner Group “private” military company (PMC) is deployed, it pops up somewhere else. In the past year, its…

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Кимберли Мартен: Действенный шаг Вашингтона против «повара Кремля»

(Голос Америки) Вашингтон реагирует на активность «повара Кремля» в Африке. Станут ли первые санкции в отношении партнеров Евгения Пригожина признаком новой американской политики на этом континенте? Соединенные Штаты на прошлой…

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NATO enlargement: evaluating its consequences in Russia

(International Politics) Abstract: It is often claimed that NATO’s post-Cold War geographic enlargement threatened Russian security interests and caused the downturn in Russia’s relations with the West. This article unpacks and challenges…

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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…

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Russia’s use of semi-state security forces: the case of the Wagner Group [Open Access]

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: This article provides a definitive, in-depth case-study, using primarily Russian sources, of Russia’s use of the informal “Wagner Group” private military company (PMC) and its antecedents (from 2012…

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…

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Brothers in Arms? Why Trump Should Push Putin to Revive Arms Control

(Foreign Affairs) Ask most commentators and you’ll hear that next week’s summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is doomed to failure. The United States and…

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Semi-state Security Actors and Russian Aggression

(LawFare) Russian aggression is a central concern of the foreign and security policy community, with debate focusing on what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions are and how best to deter…

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The Puzzle Of Russian Behavior In Deir Al-Zour

(War on the Rocks) A frightening event in U.S.-Russia relations unfolded in February near Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria, as both sides battled the remnants of the Islamic State. In violation…

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President Putin’s Rationality and Escalation in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

Кимберли Мартен: Действенный шаг Вашингтона против «повара Кремля»

NATO enlargement: evaluating its consequences in Russia

Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic

Russia’s use of semi-state security forces: the case of the Wagner Group [Open Access]

Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military

Brothers in Arms? Why Trump Should Push Putin to Revive Arms Control

Semi-state Security Actors and Russian Aggression

The Puzzle Of Russian Behavior In Deir Al-Zour