RSI Connect: Information Statecraft - Russian Society and the Elite
Date: April 19th at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
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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.
Biographies
Jade McGlynn
Title: Research Fellow, Department of War Studies Affiliation: 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 focuses 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
Title: Associate Professor of Russian Politics Affiliation: 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
Title: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst Affiliation: 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.