Foreign Policy Analysis struggles to understand the nature and impact of non-state actors. Analyzing the Wagner Group in Sudan, @karenphilippal.bsky.social and I argue that it may be understood as an instrument, an actor and an infrastructure. 🌟Open access🌟 at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By drawing on literature on non-state foreign policy actors, we establish a first-cut understanding of the Wagner Group’s role in Russian foreign policy. We show how instrument, actor, and infrastr...