A Symposium – debating ‘surrogate warfare’ and the transformation of war

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Acknowledgements

Vladimir Rauta would like to thank the contributors, the editors of the journal and Dr Corinne Heaven for the valuable comments on the final exchange.

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Notes on contributors

Vladimir Rauta

Dr Vladimir Rauta is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Politics, Economics and International Relations, University of Reading, United Kingdom. He researches proxy wars and external support with a focus on the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

Matthew Ayton

Matthew Ayton is a PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on US foreign policy and military operations in the context of the Syrian war. Previously, he worked as a reporter based in Lebanon.

Alexandra Chinchilla

Alexandra Chinchilla is a PhD student in the field of International Relations at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include third party intervention in conflict, proxy warfare, security cooperation, NATO, and alliance politics.

Andreas Krieg

Dr Andreas Krieg is a lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London and fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. In his research Andreas has focused on a variety of different subjects relating to the academic discipline of Security Studies in the geographic context of the MENA region.

Christopher Rickard

Christopher Rickard is a third-year PhD candidate at the University College London Department of Political Science. His doctoral study focuses on how external states affect civil wars, with a specific focus on how diverging forms of external support shape conflict dynamics.

Jean-Marc Rickli

Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the Head of Global Risk and Resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland.