HYBRID THREATS AND THE MILITARISATION OF GLOBALISATION: RUSSIA VS NATO
HYBRID THREATS AND THE MILITARISATION OF GLOBALISATION: RUSSIA VS NATO

Summary/Abstract: The deterioration of the security climate in Eastern Europe is likely to validate the hypothesis of reopening the rites of succession at the end of the Cold War. The proliferation of hybrid conflicts and the birth of a new type of asymmetrical threat can be thus correlated with a process of militarisation of globalisation. The article assumes that the main feature of hybrid threats from the most recent history refers to the rising influence of non-state actors and only in the alternative to the emergence of new formulas of power projection, based on non-military or subversive means. The study proposes a brief look at the security landscape in the area of the two major blocs – NATO and the Russia Federation, in relation to the phenomenon of hybrid conflicts. An approach from the angle of geopolitical theory may prove itself to be useful both from the perspective of the ability to identify the main tendencies of evolution and through the possibility to integrate them in the wide logic of processes regarding arms and militarisation of globalisation.

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