Russia-US hybrid warfare and EU-Russia Security Relations (2008-2019)

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Article 2, Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 19, December 2021, Pages 29-58   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/irlip.2021.68729.1027

Authors

Mahdi Baghimojarad^{* 1}; Saeed Vosoughi²; Shahrouz Ebrahimi²

¹Department of International Relations, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

²Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Esfahan University, Esfahan

Abstract

 
Abstract
The United States has played a complex and ambiguous role in European Union -Russia security relations since the end of the Cold War, especially under Obama and Trump. The United States is implicitly interfering in European Union -Russia security relations. Tensions and cooperation between the United States and Russia have had a significant impact on the European Union -Russia Security Challenges. The main question of the forthcoming research is how and by what mechanism has the United States influenced the European Union -Russia Security Challenges in the last two decades? The answer is that the United States is engaged in a Hybrid wafare with Russia, and has used the tools of Hybrid wafarefare to perpetuate and deepen the European Union -Russia Security Challenges (Ukraine crisis, EU enlargement and NATO enlargement). The method of the present study is documentary and data has been collected from related articles and books and has examined and analyzed the role of the United States in the European Union -Russia Security Challenges using the Theoretical framework of hybrid warfare Cullen & Kjennerud. The findings of the study suggest that the United States is continuing to contain Russia, using the tools of Hybrid wafarefare (intelligence, economic, political, military, and civilian) in the European Union -Russia Security Challenges (Ukraine crisis, EU enlargement, and NATO expansion) and the deepening of these challenges has had an impact. The most important US tools in the Hybrid wafare with Russia are intelligence, political and economic tools.

Keywords

Hybrid warfare; United States; European Union; Russia; Security Challenges

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