Organised by the Russian and Eurasian Security Research Group and the War Studies Department

Are the Russians coming? Is there some 'Gerasimov Doctrine' or some 'new way of war'? In an age in which hackers and trolls share the headlines with conventional military instruments, and in light of Russia's denied or proxy actions in Crimea and the Donbas, this is very much a concern of the moment. How far are the Russians simply adapting to the new circumstances of the modern world, though, and what are the real policy debates taking place in Moscow?

 

 

Mark Galeotti is an Honorary Professor at UCL SSEES, a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of International Relations Prague. He is also a 2018-19 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He is a specialist in Russian security and intelligence, and transnational and organised crime. His recent books include The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press, 2018), Russian Political War: moving beyond the hybrid (Routledge, 2019) and We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury 2019).