Ivan Ilʹin and the Kremlin’s Strategic Communication of Threats: Evil, Worthy and Hidden Enemies (original) (raw)

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Katri Pynnöniemi

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University of Defence

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Aleksanteri-institute and Department of Art of War

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Finland

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Katri Pynnöniemi is an assistant professor at the University of Helsinki (Aleksanteri-institute) and holds Mannerheim Chair of Russian Security Studies. The joint professorship between the University of Helsinki and the National Defense University was established in August 2017. Pynnöniemi has published widely on the system change in Russia and on Russian foreign and security policy. Her current research deals with Russia's security policy and strategic thinking. Her latest publications include: Perceptions of hybrid war in Russia: means, targets and objectives identified in the Russian debate (co-authored with Minna Jokela), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2020); Information-psychological warfare in Russian strategic thinking, in Handbook of Russian Security Policy (2019); Russia’s National Security Strategy: Analysis of Conceptual Evolution” at the Journal of Slavic Military Studies (2018)

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Enemy images can be thought of as scripts that articulate a logic of enmity and identify a source of threat towards the Self. In this chapter, Russian émigré philosopher Ivan Ilʹin’s identification of Russia’s enemies are used as a reference point in the analysis of the Kremlin’s strategic communication of threats. The analysis of Ilʹin’s enemy images and their juxtaposition with the Kremlin’s strategic communication of threats opens up three different but complementary scripts that explain threats and risks for Russia’s state security.

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