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The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge WarfareGlobal Knowledge Warfare, Strategic Imagination, Uncertainty, and Fear

The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge Warfare: Global Knowledge Warfare, Strategic... [Governments are rapidly advancing their strategies for influence operations conducted in cyberspace. Global Knowledge Warfare (GKW) is the purposeful use and management of knowledge in pursuit of a competitive advantage over opponents by influencing the minds and, ultimately, the behaviour of the targeted groups in foreign countries. Psychological warfare is the deliberate manipulation of information to influence emotions, judgement, and subsequent behaviour of individuals or groups to fulfil particular political goals. Ideological warfare is a clash of fundamental ideas or principles referring to economy, government, politics, lifestyle, or life in general. Russia, as an influential status seeker together with another powerful challenger China, has been among the pioneers of GKW, which are effectively using new tools of communication for achieving their strategic goals. Strategic imagination is the method of creative and critical assessment of possible scenarios involving threats to security. This method allows security experts to think about the future, consider “what if” situations, and assess the probability of different threats, even those that appear improbable to some. Educated forecasting—based on historical facts, today’s developments, and strategic imagination—is an important component of building successful security strategies and supportive public policies. Using examples of apparent troll activities on the web in the past, the authors discuss two prevalent features of the GKW. Global knowledge warriors operate under the conditions of three cultures developed to support their status-related goals: culture of uncertainty, culture of fear, and culture of irrational response.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge WarfareGlobal Knowledge Warfare, Strategic Imagination, Uncertainty, and Fear

Part of the Contributions to International Relations Book Series
Editors: Mölder, Holger; Sazonov, Vladimir; Chochia, Archil; Kerikmäe, Tanel
Mölder, Holger; Shiraev, Eric
The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge Warfare — Jul 25, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-73954-6
Pages
13 –32
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-73955-3_2
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Abstract

[Governments are rapidly advancing their strategies for influence operations conducted in cyberspace. Global Knowledge Warfare (GKW) is the purposeful use and management of knowledge in pursuit of a competitive advantage over opponents by influencing the minds and, ultimately, the behaviour of the targeted groups in foreign countries. Psychological warfare is the deliberate manipulation of information to influence emotions, judgement, and subsequent behaviour of individuals or groups to fulfil particular political goals. Ideological warfare is a clash of fundamental ideas or principles referring to economy, government, politics, lifestyle, or life in general. Russia, as an influential status seeker together with another powerful challenger China, has been among the pioneers of GKW, which are effectively using new tools of communication for achieving their strategic goals. Strategic imagination is the method of creative and critical assessment of possible scenarios involving threats to security. This method allows security experts to think about the future, consider “what if” situations, and assess the probability of different threats, even those that appear improbable to some. Educated forecasting—based on historical facts, today’s developments, and strategic imagination—is an important component of building successful security strategies and supportive public policies. Using examples of apparent troll activities on the web in the past, the authors discuss two prevalent features of the GKW. Global knowledge warriors operate under the conditions of three cultures developed to support their status-related goals: culture of uncertainty, culture of fear, and culture of irrational response.]

Published: Jul 25, 2021

Keywords: Global knowledge warfare; Psychological warfare; Ideological warfare; Culture of fear; Influence operations; Cybersecurity

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