The third of my crop of books out this month is Russian Political War: moving beyond the hybrid from Routledge, a study of what I think we should be talking about instead of ‘hybrid war’ (let alone the mythical ‘Gerasimov Doctrine‘). It builds off my earlier report, Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? to argue that while the Russian military – like everyone else – is looking at the opportunities in non-kinetic means to prepare the battlefield (after all, has any war not been ‘hybrid’?), the real challenge the West faces is different. The current campaign being waged against the West is not a preparation for eventual military conflict, but rather a wholly non-military campaign that echoes ‘political war’ as described by George Kennan at the start of the Cold War, and which has its spiritual home and command and control centre within the Presidential Administration and Russia’s civilian national security elites.
New Book (3): Russian Political War: moving beyond the hybrid
Posted by Mark Galeotti on February 19, 2019
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This blog’s author, Dr Mark Galeotti has been researching Russian history and security issues since the late 1980s.
Educated at Cambridge University and the LSE, he is the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. He is also an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, Ernest Bevin Associate Fellow in Euro-Atlantic Geopolitics with the Council on Geostrategy and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI, as well as a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and an Associate Fellow of the Middle East Institute’s Frontier Europe programme. Previously he has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Head of the Centre for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, head of the History department at Keele University in the UK, an adviser at the British Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Prague) and Rutgers (Newark), as well as a visiting fellow with the ECFR.
His books include The Weaponisation of Everything (Yale University Press, 2022), A Short History of Russia (HarperCollins, 2020/Ebury, 2021), We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury, 2019) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press, 2018), and several Osprey books. He is a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review and The Spectator Coffee House blog, and is a columnist for Raam op Rusland, Intellinews Business New Europe and the Moscow Times.
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Allan Mustard
/ February 19, 2019I need a Kindle edition, please! My library already costs $9,000 each time to haul across the world every time I move (I’m a diplomat)! Moving my Kindle is much cheaper!
Mark Galeotti
/ February 20, 2019I can sympathise! I’ve asked Routledge about whether an ebook version is coming out, and when I hear, I’ll say
Luis Orozco
/ February 20, 2019agree!
Allen Hingston
/ February 19, 2019I’d love to read it but at $66 CAD on Mazon.ca it is out of my reach
Mark Galeotti
/ February 19, 2019I must confess that this is one of many reasons why I am gravitating away from the traditional academic publishers whose model seems based on selling a few, expensive copies to libraries, etc.
umland
/ February 19, 2019Reblogged this on Andreas Umland.
Mark Galeotti
/ February 21, 2019For those of you who asked, I’ve just heard that it will in due course be available as an ebook, although we don’t yet know when