HOW DOES THE WAGNER GROUP SERVE AS A TOOL OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY?
Journal: Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School)
Year: 2024

This thesis presents an analysis of Russian foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin between 1999 and 2023.The primary focus is on how Putin enables the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group to achieve Russian foreign policy goals abroad. The study explores the evolution of Russian foreign policy in response to the Color Revolutions in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, and the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The observable shift in employment of the Wagner Group from Ukraine to the expansion in