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Vladimir Rauta
Director, Project Proxies and Partners
Dr Vladimir Rauta is an Associate Professor of International Security with the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Reading. He was a 2023 Non-Resident Fellow with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, a joint production Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and the Modern War Institute at West Point. Vladimir holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Nottingham and his research sits at the intersection of conflict research and international security. It uses proxy wars as a vehicle to explore the delegation of war from states to armed non-state actors in the contemporary security environment. He has published in journals such as International Security, International Studies Review, Civil Wars, International Relations, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, the RUSI Journal, and Contemporary Security Policy. He is the one of the editors of the recently published Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars