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Candace Rondeaux

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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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  • The Fiery Fall of the Wagner Group: An Excerpt from "Putin's Sledgehammer"

    2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

    In Putin’s Sledgehammer, New America Senior Director Candace Rondeaux traces the rise of the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The below excerpt adapted from the new book previews how a criminal-turned-warlord helped Russia defy the international order to ramp up competition with the West—leading to his death, and leaving behind a legacy of chaos.

  • Unfinished Empire

    1 month 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.

  • "Putin’s Sledgehammer" Reveals How the Wagner Group Became So Powerful it Threatened Him

    1 month 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.

  • Compute or Be Computed

    1 month 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.

  • Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos with Candace Rondeaux

    1 month 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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Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux @CandaceRondeaux
12 Jun 25

What she said.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury
Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury

Here in America, there are no kings. ⬇️ https://t.co/QyXQG7fnPU

Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux @CandaceRondeaux
12 Jun 25

RT @EvelynNFarkas: Great to be at #GLOBSEC2025 with #KarinvonHippel previously of ⁦@RUSI_org⁩ & ⁦@CandaceRondeaux⁩ also of ⁦@ASU⁩ & ⁦@NewAm…

Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux @CandaceRondeaux
12 Jun 25

This is shameful beyond words:

Elex Michaelson
Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson

🚨 #BREAKING @SenAlexPadilla tries to interrupt a press conference by @DHSgov Sec @KristiNoem and he’s forcibly removed. California’s senior U.S. Senator was handcuffed and detained. Video from @AlexPadilla4CA’s staff 🚨 https://t.co/PXfszkBXxo