MIGRATION CRISIS AS A COMPONENT OF A HYBRID WAR

• Main Authors: Vitalii Shevchuk, Yurii Punda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Cherniakhovsky 2020-09-01
• Series: Sučasnì Informacìjnì Tehnologìï u Sferì Bezpeki ta Oboroni
• Subjects: migration crisis; hybrid war; expansion; social tension; multipolarity
• Online Access: http://sit.nuou.org.ua/article/view/208950

The article discusses the preconditions and origins of large-scale migration processes taking place in the territories of the European Union (EU) over the past decade and presents a study of the relationship between migration flows and modern hybrid wars, referring to the correlation of dissimilar warfare conditions. both military and non-military means of hybrid expansion of the Russian Federation. The description of the procedures representing the use of conventional and non-traditional means of influence of Russia, as well as its state and non-state actors, which are aimed at provoking instability, disorder of state-building processes in Ukraine and the European Union. The study is important for the regional security of Eastern European countries since on the one hand, hybrid threats from Russia are seen as fundamental to Ukraine's national security, and, on the other hand, as social tensions caused by refugee crises and related fears, which are major factors in political instability and social fragmentation around the world, and therefore the provocation of large-scale migration flows may be a new form of creeping hybrid expansion of the Russian Federation, carried out in order to achieve the latter's ambitious goals.