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Join in as RSI hosts three United Kingdom based scholars to discuss their thoughts on Russian information statecraft. Defense and security scholars Jade McGlynn, Ben Noble, and Nicholas Vidal discuss aspects of recent work and will share ideas related to Russian information campaigning and influence. The discussion will highlight both theoretical and applied viewpoints on Russian disinformation to elite factionalism.
Join in as RSI hosts three United Kingdom based scholars to discuss their thoughts on Russian information statecraft.
Defense and security scholars Jade McGlynn, Ben Noble, and Nicholas Vidal discuss aspects of recent work and will share ideas related to Russian information campaigning and influence.
The discussion will highlight both theoretical and applied viewpoints on Russian disinformation to elite factionalism.
Biographies
Jade McGlynn Research Fellow, Department of War StudiesKing's College London
Jade McGlynn is a Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, KCL. She is the author of Russia’s War (Polity) and Memory Makers (Bloomsbury). Her research focusses on Russia’s war on Ukraine since 2014, as well as Russian state-society relations, propaganda, and memory politics. Prior to joining KCL, Jade held academic research positions and lectureships at Middlebury College (USA) and the University of Oxford. Jade received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2020. Her dissertation examined the co-creation by the Russian state and society of a historically-grounded post-Soviet identity. Jade lived in Russia between 2009-2010, and from 2011-2015.
Ben NobleAssociate Professor of Russian Politics, University College LondonAssociate Fellow, Chatham House
Dr Ben Noble is Associate Professor of Russian Politics at University College London and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His research interests include Russian domestic politics, legislative politics, and authoritarianism, with funding and awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the Political Studies Association, and the British Academy. His co-authored book on Alexei Navalny – which has so far been translated into nine languages – was named a politics book of the year in 2021 by the Financial Times, The Hill, and Diplomatic Courier, and a Foreign Affairs book of the year in 2022. Ben regularly provides commentary on Russian politics for policy, media, and general audiences.
Nicholas VidalCyber Threat Intelligence Analyst SecAlliance