Senior Fellow

Raphael Parens is a Senior Fellow at Delphi Global Research Center and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He is an international security analyst focused on Africa and Eurasia. Parens has been published in Foreign Affairs, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel, War on the Rocks, and FPRI. His forthcoming book, entitled Moscow’s Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group and co-authored with Dr. Colin P. Clarke and Dr. Christopher Faulkner, will be published in the spring of 2026.