Next week, we’re excited to be hosting Dr Alessandro Arduino on Chinese Private Security Companies: Neither Blackwater nor the Wagner Group. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 22nd in the Old Library at All Souls College at 8:30pm. As always, there will be a drinks reception prior to the event, starting at 8pm.
Dr Alessandro Arduino is a Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Affiliated Lecturer at the Lau China Institute in King’s College London and a foremost expert on Chinese private security as well as the Belt and Road Initiative. He was previously a China expert for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Co-Director at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

His recent book, “Money for Mayhem: Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Drones, and the Future of War”, depicts war in a world dominated by private armies. On his podcasts, “Boots off the Ground: Security Transformation in the Middle East and Beyond”, and “Making Risk Better”, he discusses contemporary security architecture transition.