The New Cossacks: the use of private military companies by Russia

• Grant number: 24/21057-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2025
• End date: December 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Sérgio Luiz Cruz Aguilar
• Grantee: Virgilio Manoel Trindade de Lima Avelino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Starting at the topic of private military companies and the private security companies, the search project wants to analysis the use of these kind of entrepreneurship in several instances of the military ground, from the logistics to the, in fact, direct and indirect combat, from the cases which have ties with the government of Russia to those which have the inclusion of plausible deniability. By the point of analysis of several companies, trying to understand his utilization in favour of the Russian foreign policy in countries such Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. The project set his bases on qualitative methods, grounding on a base of articles, entries of encyclopaedia and Russian official documents. In the analysis of data, will be used theories of International Relations, majority the Offensive realism and the Theory of Security Clusters of Buzan and Waever.