Russia’s Private Military Enterprises as a Multipurpose Tool of Hybrid Warfare

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13518046.2022.2132608" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13518046.2022.2132608</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2022.2132608" target="_blank" >10.1080/13518046.2022.2132608</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Russia’s Private Military Enterprises as a Multipurpose Tool of Hybrid Warfare

Original language description

This article covers the emergence, evolution and use of private military enterprises in Russia. Although formally illegal, there exist a diverse private military enterprises market in Russia with several providers more or less intertwined with state authorities. Building on previous research, the authors conclude that Russian private military enterprises gradually evolved from grassroots origins into a suitable tool for a wide range of hybrid warfare and counter-hybrid warfare operations. Moreover, the authors found that Russian private military providers recently underwent a transformation that turned them into a multipurpose tool usable in Russia’s geopolitical confrontation with the West. Russian PMCs have recently been seen in many African countries, where their activities contribute to two purposes — first, the commercial interests of their owners and donors. Second, the advance of Moscow’s geopolitical and economic interests. This modus vivendi is made possible by a peculiar, non-transparent relationship between the Russian state or specific state authorities (especially armed forces and intelligence services) and the owners of allegedly private military enterprises – the so-called hybrid model of the economy. Its essence is the leverage the state has over the privateers – an ability to summon them at any time in support of the state’s strategic goals in exchange for privateers’ impunity and tolerance of their de facto illegal business activities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

ISSN

1351-8046

e-ISSN

1556-3006

Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

181-204

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85142280165