
Candace Rondeaux
Senior Director, Future Frontlines at New America
Writer at Freelance
Senior Director, Future Frontlines @NewFrontlines @NewAmerica Professor @ASU @Future_of_War Columnist @WPReview: Writes about Planetary Politics @PlanetaryPol
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1 week ago |
newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux’s offers a meticulously reported account of the Wagner Group’s rise, its brutal tactics in Ukraine, and its entanglement with Putin’s regime. Juxtaposed against Donnacha Ó Beacháin’s more polemical , Rondeaux’s work stands out to The Irish Times for its investigative depth and refusal to flatten Russian history into a single narrative. Read here.
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1 week ago |
newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux
Investigating the rise and unraveling of the Wagner Group & Russia’s notorious paramilitary force with deep ties to Vladimir Putin, author and Senior Director Candace Rondeaux joined Nick Schifrin to discuss Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos on PBS News Hour. Watch or read the full transcript here.
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2 weeks ago |
newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux
The physical infrastructure of computing fundamentally constrains AI sovereignty, creating a new geopolitical stratification where only the United States and China enjoy full-stack supply chain control. Most nations face various degrees of dependency in a “sovereignty shell game” that delivers the rhetoric but not the reality of AI sovereignty.
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3 weeks ago |
newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux joins the Secrets and Spies podcast to dissect the Wagner Group’s rise as a covert instrument of Russian power, drawing on her book Putin’s Sledgehammer. She unpacks how Wagner fused organized crime with state ambition to evade sanctions, arm militias, and export Kremlin influence from Syria to Africa. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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3 weeks ago |
newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux
In this recent German-language SPIEGEL article, experts warn that the U.S.'s dominance over internet infrastructure could empower President Trump to wield it as a tool of international pressure. Senior Director Candace Rondeaux contributes her insights on the potential ramifications of such digital leverage. Read here.
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RT @PlanetaryPol: "#AI sovereignty" may be in the spotlight, but the real power lies with those who control the chips, servers, & energy be…

Thank. You are very kind. Can do.

@CandaceRondeaux Just listened to it. Fascinating. One request: will you please consider cross-posting on #BlueSky? I don’t want to miss your insights, but I dearly want to leave the brown #extremeright sewer, that #Twitter has become, completely behind me. Thanks in advance.

If you happen to be in #SanFranciso this week. Come check it out.

Candace Rondeaux will be at Book Passage in San Francisco this Thursday, May 22nd at 5:30pm to discuss her book Putin’s Sledgehammer: https://t.co/NXyjx4bTfT @bookpassage @CandaceRondeaux https://t.co/SjmvHVSQ0O