The Hybrid Nature of Wars in the Postmodern Era

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[In Russian]

In the article the transformation and the nature of modern hybrid wars are analyzed. There are reasons for the emergence of such a new phenomenon as hybrid wars: the formation of a modern society, globalization, de-conventionalization, the weakening of the sovereignty of a national state, the substitution of politics by the economy. Significant changes connected with the transformation of modern war are that war turns from a crime into a police action; separate manifestations of terrorism are transformed into global terrorism; the borders of the national states disappear, which in turn, deprives them of the right to national sovereignty; the regular war based on the principles of the Public European Law has become the hybrid and total war. This hybrid war in principle cannot be terminated by a peace treaty. The author of this article argues that the modern world order is based on the hybrid war.