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War and Peace in Post-Modern World: Case of DAESH-Syrian Complexity

Vostok/Oriens '2016, №4

 
The twentieth century was the century of permanent revolution; the twenty first century risks becoming a time of permanent war. The concept of “hybrid warfare” reflects the set of aggressive manipulations, application of a wide range of tools that create complex combinations of direct and indirect threats to the enemy. Such “war” extends the capabilities of conventional politics and focuses on the deconstruction of adverse circumstances, submission or decomposition of the enemy with the purpose of reorganization of the existing and/or establishment of a new political order. The situation in Syria is an example of such complex situation. It crossed several dimensions: global, regional, confessional, ethnic-national, post-modern. The phenomenon of the ISIS (Daesh) presents the world an innovative political organism, challenging the values of modernity. This is a specific post-modern challenge, a simulacrum, containing its own play and value components, presenting a traumatic inclusion in the modern text in the form of post-colonial post-imperial limitrophe states.

Keywords: postmodernity, hybrid warfare, Syria, ISIS (Daesh), complexity, preadaptation

Pages: С. 6–15