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Aliev D.F. Psychological narratives of hybrid wars. Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2022; 1(4). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/05SPN422.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/05SPN422

Psychological narratives of hybrid wars

Aliev Dzhomart Fazylovich
Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: AlievDF@rgsu.net

Abstract. The changes in the nature of public relations that occurred at the end of the twentieth century significantly affected the nature of those interstate relations that were formed after the Second World War. First of all, it concerned the attitude to classical (conventional) wars, which were widespread all over the world, and which were based on the conduct of positional warfare. The modern approach assumed a complete exclusion in the resolution of interstate contradictions (conflicts) of its so-called «hot phase» — the conduct of direct hostilities. The inconsistency of such a view, according to the author, was that the existing contradictions between various states and their associations, conceived, are antagonistic, irreconcilable. Hence there was a need to find a means of fighting another state, without the use of military force. The psychological impact on the consciousness of the citizens of the victim State was chosen as such a means. Unlike traditional wars, such an impact, according to its legal regime, represents a new type of non-military interstate confrontation. According to the author, the concept of «hybrid wars» and conflicts is based on non-standard, from the point of view of traditional warfare, the behavior (actions) of its participants. The difference between hybrid warfare and its conventional counterparts is based on a powerful psychological component, which is determined by a set of specific narratives. Now there is no need to destroy the enemy state and destroy its population. It is enough, using specific psychological techniques, to create certain fears among the population of a potential victim state. According to the author, such fears are imposed on citizens with the help of psychological narratives. Hence the idea that the basis of the confrontation of the psychological component of hybrid warfare is its understanding, and therefore the correct definition of countermeasures.

Keywords: hybrid warfare; hybrid conflicts; psychology of hybrid wars; narratives of hybrid warfare; typology of psychological narratives of hybrid wars; classification of psychological narratives of hybrid wars; public relations

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