What is it about?
Since 2013, Russia has actively started to develop its non-linear approach to military strategy, in which Information warfare forms an influential part. The difference between ‘wartime’ and ‘peacetime’ disappears and perpetual warfare may become the normal manifestation of relationship between states. This remembers a kind of state of war as it was described by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his works of the 17th century.
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Why is it important?
The study examines how Russia adjusts its military strategies to the new post-truth security environment and claims that Russia uses information operations efficiently in its status-related challenge to the Western-dominated international system. The problem that has emerged in Ukraine is largely the consequence of the returning of Hobbesian paradigms into international politics, based on the fact that the West has been quite inconsistent in introducing the Kantian principles of international security governance worldwide.
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The authors have a long standing collaboration in studying the information warfare regarding the ongoing conflict in Donbass. This article unites theoretical perspectives with the examination of specific case study..
Holger Mölder
Tallinn University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Information Warfare as the Hobbesian Concept of Modern Times — The Principles, Techniques, and Tools of Russian Information Operations in the Donbass, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, July 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13518046.2018.1487204.
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