Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

by Keir Giles
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

by Keir Giles

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Overview

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.

Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve?
In this book, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine – and what it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350255081
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/26/2023
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 317,148
Product dimensions: 6.45(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Keir Giles is Senior Consulting Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre. He has spent three decades explaining Russia, for the BBC, the UK Ministry of Defence, Chatham House, NATO and in the private sector. His previous publications include Russia's 'New' Tools for Confronting the West (2016), the Handbook of Russian Information Warfare (2016) and Moscow Rules (2019).

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. What Makes Russia Different

2. Politics: Warfare By Other Means

3. Neither War Nor Peace

4. What the Russian Army is For

5. Nobody Is Too Unimportant

6. The Willing Accomplices

7. Business, Statecraft And Crime

8. What Comes Next

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