Vladimir Rauta
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+44 (0)118 378 8501
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Associate Professor
Module Convenor: PO1WAR (War and Warfare) and PO3DCW (Dynamics of Civil Wars)
Building location
Edith Morley Building,Room 310, Whiteknights campus, Reading.Postgraduate supervision
I am keen to hear from potential PhD students with research proposals in the area of conflict delegation and proxy war, counter-insurgency, civil wars and sub-state violence, and contemporary conflict with a focus on hybrid and/or grey zone warfare.
Publications
- Moghadam, A. , Rauta, V. , Wyss, M. , eds. (2023) Routledge handbook of proxy wars. Routledge , Abingdon. pp 476. ISBN: 9781032004136
- Rauta, V. and Spatafora, G. (2023) The future of proxy wars. In: Gruszczak, A. and Kaempf, S. , (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. Routledge (Taylor and Francis) ISBN: 9781032288901
- Hammett, B. and Rauta, V. (2023) Militias and proxy wars. In: Moghadam, A. , Rauta, V. , Wyss, M. , (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars. Routledge (Taylor and Francis) , London. ISBN: 9781032004136
- Moghadam, A. , Rauta, V. , Wyss, M. (2023) The study of proxy wars. In: Moghadam, A. , Rauta, V. , Wyss, M. , (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars. Routledge (Taylor and Francis) , London. ISBN: 9781032004136
- Karlén, N. and Rauta, V. (2023) Dealers and brokers in civil wars: why states delegate rebel support to conduit countries. International Security , 47 (4). pp. 107-146. ISSN: 1531-4804 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00461
- Finnegan, P. and Rauta, V. (2022) Dilemmas of fundamentalist non-state actors in international relations. In: Charountaki, M. and Irrera, D. , (eds.) Mapping Non-State Actors in International Relations. Non-State Actors in International Relations Springer , Cham. pp. 53-71. ISBN: 9783030914622 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91463-9_4
- Rauta, V. (2021) A conceptual critique of remote warfare. Defence Studies , 21 (4). pp. 545-572. ISSN: 1743-9698 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2021.1994398
- Biegon, R. , Rauta, V. , Watts, T. (2021) Remote warfare – buzzword or buzzkill?. Defence Studies , 21 (4). pp. 427-446. ISSN: 1743-9698 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2021.1994396
- Karlen, N. , Rauta, V. , Salehyan, I. , Mumford, A. , San-Acka, B. , Stark, A. , Wyss, M. , Moghadam, A. , Duursma, A. , Tamm, H. , Jenne, E. , Popovic, M. , Siroky, D. , Meier, V. , Chinchilla, A. , Rickard, K. , Spatafora, G. (2021) Forum: conflict delegation in civil wars. International Studies Review , 23 (4). ISSN: 1468-2486 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isr/viab053
- Rauta, V. and Monaghan, S. (2021) Global Britain in the grey zone: between stagecraft and statecraft. Contemporary Security Policy , 42 (4). pp. 475-497. ISSN: 1352-3260 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2021.1980984
- Rauta, V. (2021) ‘Proxy War’: a reconceptualisation. Civil Wars , 23 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN: 1369-8249 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2021.1860578
- Rauta, V. (2021) Framers, founders, and reformers: three generations of proxy war research. Contemporary Security Policy , 42 (1). pp. 113-134. ISSN: 1352-3260 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2020.1800240
- Rauta, V. (2020) Proxy warfare and the future of conflict: take two. RUSI Journal , 165 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN: 1744-0378 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2020.1736437
- Rauta, V. (2020) Towards a typology of non-state actors in ‘hybrid warfare’: proxy, auxiliary, surrogate and affiliated forces. Cambridge Review of International Affairs , 33 (6). pp. 868-887. ISSN: 1474-449X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2019.1656600
- Smith, T. , Lee, P. , Rauta, V. , Khalfey, S. (2020) Understanding the Syria Babel: moral perspectives on the Syrian conflict from just war to Jihad. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism , 43 (12). pp. 1108-1128. ISSN: 1521-0731 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1523358
- Rauta, V. (2019) Conceptualising the regular-irregular engagement: the strategic value of proxies and auxiliaries in wars amongst the people. In: Brown, D. , Murray, D. , Riemann, M. , Rossi, N. , Smith, M. , (eds.) War Amongst the People. Howgate Publishing Limited , Havant.
- Rauta, V. (2018) A structural-relational analysis of party dynamics in proxy wars. International Relations , 32 (4). pp. 449-467. ISSN: 1741-2862 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117818802436
- Rauta, V. and Mumford, A. (2017) Proxy wars and the contemporary security environment. The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence. Palgrave pp. 99-115. ISBN: 9781137536754 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53675-4_6
- Rauta, V. (2016) Proxy agents, auxiliary forces, and sovereign defection: assessing the outcomes of using non-state actors in civil conflicts. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies , 16 (1). pp. 91-111. ISSN: 1743-9639 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2016.1148416