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Prof. Kornely Kakachia, the Director of the Georgian Institute of Politics, and Dr. Shota Kakabadze, a policy analyst at the same institute, contributed to the book “Russian Warfare and Influence: States in the Intersection Between East and West,” edited by Niklas Nilsson and Mikael Weissmann.
Their contribution, titled “Beyond Cyber and Disinformation: Russian hybrid warfare tactics in Georgia” is featured as a chapter in the book.
This open-access anthology takes a holistic approach to how Russia carries out hybrid warfare against its neighbouring countries – states at the intersection between the East and West. The book addresses the vulnerabilities of these countries to Russian influence and hybrid warfare tactics, as well as their responses to this security challenge. It includes a close examination of local developments in states such as Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Armenia, Serbia and many others, analysing specific scenarios and practices, and draws on these observations to develop the current conceptual understanding of hybrid warfare as a phenomenon. Scholarship frequently focuses only on Russia and treats countries subjected to Russian hybrid measures as passive victims, thus providing an overly schematic picture of Russian behaviour. This book instead treats these states as actors in their own right, assessing their potential to address and counter the specific security problems arising from their geographic and political position.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
DOI: 10.5040/9781350335257
ISBN: 978-1-3503-3522-6 (hardback); 978-1-3503-3521-9 (paperback); 978-1-3503-3524-0 (epdf); 978-1-3503-3523-3 (epub); 978-1-3503-3525-7 (online)
Date of Publication: 2024
Published Online: 24 June 2024
Collection(s): Bloomsbury Open Access, Politics & International Relations 2024, Title By Title
Place of Publication: London
Printer/Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Edition: First edition
Identifier: b-9781350335257
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