Demidov , A.V. From the “soft power” to the “controlled chaos”

Abstract: In this article the author attempts to analyze the strategies, which are more and more often used by the United States of America and other Western stats in order to change regimes, which they find unsuitable. The author mentions the principles of relevant strategies and the practical methods. The authors provides recommendations for the possible counteractions against application of the “soft power” and “controlled chaos” strategies in Russia, offering the options for involvement of the “soft power” elements in the foreign policy of Russia. In the modern global world, where the political, social and economic standards are formed in an unified manner offered by the only remaining superpower, the indirect means of undermining the rival state from inside are often used instead of the traditional military actions. There are many names for these technologies “soft power”, “smart power”, “controlled chaos”, etc. All of these definitions involve various means undermining political and economic potential of the state. These means also include the socalled “twitter revolutions”, artificially formed oppositions, kindling the protest movements. The characteristic feature of implementation of these strategies in the regions and states, in which the West has its interests, is application of the double standards. It is proven, for example, by some specific features of the “Arabian Spring”, when almost simultaneously in the course of two months the riot covered almost all of the regions, while having no development in the Qatar and the Saudi Arabia, which are the allies of the USA. There the riots were suppressed by the local regimes fast and without mercy, and there were no protests from either Washington or other Western capitals.

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