RSI Connect: Information Statecraft - Russian Society and the Elite

April 19th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
via Cisco Webex Events

 

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Details:

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 Studies
King'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 Noble
Associate Professor of Russian Politics, University College London
Associate 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 Vidal
Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
SecAlliance
Nicholas H. Vidal is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at SecAlliance, a London-based cybersecurity consultancy, where he is responsible for strategic reporting on threats to European critical infrastructure, nation-state threat actor monitoring, and horizon scanning. He is also fluent in Russian and holds an M.A. in Science and International Security from King’s College London’s Department of War Studies, where he authored his dissertation on Russian strategic culture and its role in shaping contemporary elite understandings of information confrontation (IPb). Nicholas has also recently held roles as an Open Source Intelligence Analyst with MINT Analysis and as a Research Analyst within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.