Book Talk: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War
Join us for a timely discussion of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, in which Sean M. Wiswesser draws on decades of experience to examine the doctrine, methods, and strategic logic underpinning contemporary Russian espionage. The talk situates intelligence activity within broader frameworks of hybrid conflict and coercive statecraft, analyzing how Russian Services employ deception, active measures, and covert action under Putin.
Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain
New analysis suggests major shift in UK politics from Labour and Conservatives
Alayna Su Yi Yap
Alayna Yap is a MPhil International Relations candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Her research decodes Chinese and Russian political communications through combining computational social science methods and cybersecurity tools, with a focus on authoritarian informationalism, algorithmic manipulation, cyber warfare, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference tactics. Her thesis work examines the prevalence of coordination, automation, and disinformation in foreign communications towards African states.
Nagi Koriki
I am a DPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Edward Keene. My research lies at the intersection of international relations theory, international law, and socio-legal studies. It examines how the international legal principle of sovereign equality has been reconstructed by actors in semi-peripheral status positions within international society.
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