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Informationen zum Autor Iulian Chifu is the State Counsellor of the Romanian Prime Minister for Foreign Relations, Security and Strategic Affairs. He was the Founder and President of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Centre Bucharest. Greg Simons is a Researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University in Sweden and a Lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences at Turiba University in Riga, Latvia. Klappentext "A detailed analysis revealing the risks and hazards present and possible in the politics and communication of contemporary warfare in an increasingly unstable international relations environment. Will appeal to scholars, researchers and advanced students of international relations, communications studies and military studies"-- Vorwort A critical and multifaceted analysis of the problems created by the politics and communicated representation of contemporary warfare. Zusammenfassung A detailed analysis revealing the risks and hazards present and possible in the politics and communication of contemporary warfare in an increasingly unstable international relations environment. Will appeal to scholars, researchers and advanced students of international relations, communications studies and military studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: motivation, purpose and structure of the book; 2. Informational warfare: a theoretical approach; 3. Understanding political and intangible elements in modern wars; 4. The fourth generation of informational warfare; 5. The culture and language of contemporary armed conflict; 6. Different shades of information and communication in armed conflict: white, grey and black; 7. The effects of technological evolution and social media on the individual, society and politics; 8. Western hybrid warfare: crisis and subversion in regime change; 9. Geopolitics in the age of social media: the struggle for influence on Ukraine; 10. The Ukrainian and Syrian conflicts: civil wars or geopolitical Shatterbelts?; 11. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on man, society, politics and international relations: the role of social media and informational warfare; 12. Conclusions: summing up the knowledge and answering the questions....
