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Christopher M. Faulkner is an assistant professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. Raphael Parens is a fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia and Africa Programs and a senior fellow at the Delphi Global Research Center. Colin P. Clarke is the executive director of the Soufan Center, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism–The Hague, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
The Wagner mercenary company may be all but defunct, but as this important and interesting study shows, the model of outsourced authoritarian violence and influence has proven itself, and we can expect not simply Russia but other countries to be looking to adapt it to their own ends. -- Mark Galeotti, coauthor of <i>Downfall: Putin, Prigozhin and the New Fight for the Future of Russia</i> In a liminal world order where pseudo-powerful states increasingly seek global influence on a shoestring budget, what does the Wagner Group's dynamic rise and precipitous fall reveal about the nature of state-sanctioned violence in the twenty-first century? Authored by some of the world's foremost observers, this timely book reveals how Moscow's premier mercenary force, analyzed through its principal-agent problems and coup-proofing function, became an uncontrollable political and criminal blueprint for others. Moscow's Mercenaries is a chilling and imperative account of how irregular warfare serves as a primary and expanding instrument of authoritarian power. -- Jason Warner, coauthor of <i>The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront</i>
