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Today, New America relaunches our brand and website, strengthening how we advance independent research and bold solutions for a new America.
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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.
🛰️ More: go.newamerica.org/ai-africa-…
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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. ⚡🤖
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This is Igor Sechin — CEO of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest allies from their KGB-era St. Petersburg days. Yesterday, his company was hit with the U.S.’s toughest sanctions yet. And that’s a big deal. 🧵
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Russia leveraged the #WagnerGroup to turn irregular warfare into a global business model. Tomorrow at @NewAmerica, I’ll be talking with .@WQBowen of .@warstudies fame what that means for the next phase of conflict & what we’ve learned from Putin’s Sledgehammer.
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Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux deep-dives into how the #Trump administration is trying to outmaneuver #Russia through #Belarus, and why this move isn't likely to pay off.
Read here at @WPReview: worldpoliticsreview.com/us-b…
The Trump administration is attempting a mini-thaw with Belarus, hoping to peel the close Russian ally away from Moscow.
As @CandaceRondeaux writes, though, this strategy has one fatal flaw.
worldpoliticsreview.com/us-b…
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🎙️ Missed my conversation with .@ColinPClarke at the .@IntlSpyMuseum? Catch our deep dive on the Wagner Group—how a caterer became a warlord, and what it means for the future of modern war.📺 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=IXBa3w3E… #WagnerGroup #SpyMuseum #OSINT #PutinsSledgehammer
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📆 May 13, 2025
@CandaceRondeaux of @PlanetaryPol/@NewFrontlines reveals in her new book "Putin's Sledgehammer" how mercenaries, mobsters, and oligarchs have become central tools of Kremlin power projection.
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Our work and book are mentioned in @RANDCorporation and this is such a great recognition of our work - go and read their assessment, it is great rand.org/pubs/research_repor…
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While the #UnitedStates #TariffWar may target #China, the fallout hits economies across #Africa too.
In The Africanist Perspective, Sr. Fellow @kenopalo unpacks why trade #nationalism won’t deliver prosperity for anyone.
Read more: newamerica.org/planetary-pol…
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Senior Director @CandaceRondeaux (at @NewFrontlines - @NewAmerica, Professor at @ASU) joins our #Geocriminality series to unpack why #Russia relies on proxies like Wagner and what’s behind the Russia-UAE alliance.
🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/Wj9u1ul
#Geopolitics
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A little refresher on why the #Trump #Putin bromance may not be able to resolve all problems they imagine they are trying to wrestle to the ground with a #Russia 🇷🇺-#USA 🇺🇸carving up of #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Hat tip to our friends at .@smallwars
Russia's Wagner Group was always a state project.
Meet some of the key government officials who enabled a decade of global paramilitary operations.
Our latest from @CandaceRondeaux and @wbend:
newamerica.org/future-frontl…
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[FEB 19] Join a conversation w/ Rachel Adams @racheladamsward, author of The New Empire of AI—moderated by Nonresident Scholar & @gcg_ai Fellow Faisal Lalani @ourthuley.
RSVP to learn more about how #AI is deepening global inequality: newamerica.org/planetary-pol…
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Incoming Sr Fellow Ken Opalo @kopalo features in @nytimes commenting on the impact of the #USAID withdrawal from nations with fragile economies.
What will emerge out of these now-crumbling healthcare & development systems across the #GlobalSouth?
More: newamerica.org/planetary-pol…
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Been awhile but not for lack of thinking and action: newamerica.org/the-thread/de…
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🗓️💻 Join Sr Fellow @akashkapur & @roughtype online today, February 6 at 12 PM ET, for an exciting conversation on the impact of the information "superbloom" defining our age.
Read more about Carr's latest book Superbloom & register here: newamerica.org/planetary-pol…
#Technology #AI
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Candace Rondeaux of New America and Arizona State University examines the structural vulnerabilities of Russian paramilitaries in the latest article from Small Wars Journal.
smallwarsjournal.com/2024/12…
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.@NewFrontlines shares findings from a year-long study on Russian paramilitary cartel, the Wagner Group.
🔎 Explore:
• Detailed profiles of commanders/facilitators
• Interactive visualizations
• Prigozhin's calendar entries from 2018-2022
• And more
uncoveringwagner.org
