... promotion of narratives hostile to the West through Russian broadcasting abroad, support for certain political forces, the use of church institutions to promote their interests, etc. There is a mutual antagonism and fierce rivalry in various fields.
Can the hybrid war between Russia and the West be considered exceptional? No, it cannot. Today we see an increase in the hybrid rivalry between China and the United States. At the regional level, there are many hybrid wars—in the Transcaucasus, the Middle East, Latin America,...
... policy tool is a sign of declining quality of the statecraft. One of the best examples of that is the standoff between the United States and the USSR during the late period of the latter’s existence.
Beside this bipolar standoff, the USSR and then Russia has a long history in performing hybrid warfare. The Soviet Union had skillfully practiced the covert and limited interventions into the foreign conflicts for most of its history. Such examples included the Soviet military and political assistance to Guomindang in China in 1924-1927,...
In June 2015 the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) published a report entitled “Russia’s Hybrid War in Ukraine: Breaking the enemy’s ability to resist”, by András Rácz, a senior research fellow at the institute
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. As the title indicates, the subject of the paper is the phenomenon of “hybrid war”. Following Russia’s accession ...
