Karen Philippa Larsen

@karenphilippal.bsky.social

Researcher at DIIS. Researching the Wagner Group and Russia’s use of ‘PMCs’ | Co-host at Frontlinjen at Radio IIII

More on Russia's foreign fighters. I spoke with @eilishhart.bsky.social from @meduza.io about my research on Russia's use of foreigners at the frontlines in Ukraine.

Eilish Hart@eilishhart.bsky.social · 7mo ago

With the Kremlin’s global recruitment drive in the spotlight, I turned to @karenphilippal.bsky.social of @diis.dk for insight into how Russia lures foreign nationals into its war against Ukraine and uses them as “disposable soldiers.” My latest for @meduza.io meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Rusland rekrutterer kæmpere fra (næsten) hele verden til at kæmpe i krigen i Ukraine - det har jeg talt med Tv2 om. Samtalen bygger på mit feltarbejde i Ukraine og mit @diis.dk projekt med Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde. Du kan læse med her: nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2025-...

Rusland narrer soldater fra andre lande til hæren – men formålet er ikke at vinde krigen

Putin vil vise den russiske befolkning, hvordan der opbakning fra verdensmajoriteten i krigen mod Ukraine, siger dansk forsker som har besøgt fanger.

nyheder.tv2.dk

Who are the foreigners, migrants and prisoners fighting in Russia’s war in Ukraine? What are they motivated by? And how were they recruited? If you are in Copenhagen (or around), you can find out more about precisely this, at this @diis.dk seminar Tuesday the 18th at Kastellet. Sign up here

Migrants, prisoners and foreign fighters: Sustaining the Russia-Ukraine frontline

How does Russia sustain manpower for its war efforts in Ukraine? This seminar explores Russia’s use of three types of ‘shadow’ combatants — migrants, prisoners, and foreign fighters — to meet the cons...

diis.dk

⚡New open access publication ⚡ Together with @anderswivel.bsky.social - if you're interested in non-state actors in foreign policy, have a look at this article - link below 👇

Anders Wivel@anderswivel.bsky.social · last yr.

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....

Havde en god snak med @karenphilippal.bsky.social og Peter Ernstved Rasmussen om mødet mellem Trump og Zelenskyj, europæernes fredsplan, Trumps pause for USAs støtte til Ukraine, Europas afhængighed af USA og de vidt forskellige syn på konflikten på tværs af atlanten. radio4.dk/podcasts/fro...

Frontlinjen - Trump stopper måske støtten til Ukraine

Efter nedsmeltningen i mødet mellem den amerikanske præsident Donald Trump og den ukrainske præsident Zelenskyj fredag i Det Hvide Hus satte europæern

radio4.dk

Jubiii – I have a new article published in @iajournal.bsky.social The topic is the Russian Wagner Group and the state. I argue that we need to take specificities of the Russian economic and political system into account, when trying to understand the Wagner Group. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

The Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian state

Is the Wagner Group a new phenomenon? Observing the group's relationship with the Russian state through the lens of ‘regime enmeshment’ exposes the group's

academic.oup.com

Første delaftale om Arktis indeholder for 14,6 mia. blandet styrkelse af Danmarks militære tilstedeværelse i Arktis. Men er det en styrket indsats, når man erstatter fire skibe med tre? Og hvad kalder man en krydsning mellem et miljøskib og et krigsskib, der nu reorienteres til Arktis? Lyt med 👇

Frontlinjen - Oprustning i Arktis: For lidt, for sent og for langsomt

I en ny delaftale om Arktis har forligspartierne afsat 14,6 mia. kr. til bl.a. at bygge tre nye arktiske skibe og forbedre overvågningen i Nordatlante

radio4.dk