Kurilkin A.V. The peculiarities of organization and carrying out of information-psychological operations in international relations and international conflicts

Abstract: The research is aimed at theoretical characterizing of information-psychological influence as a new phenomenon in a political sphere. The main tasks of the study are: the description of history of information wars and cyber wars development; the study of the methods and technologies, used in these conflicts; the study of an experience of foreign countries in these spheres. The author reveals the differences between information wars and classical political campaigns of various nature and analyzes the phenomenon of cyber wars from the viewpoint of the theory of politics and the theory of international relations. The methodology of the research is based on the system, structural-functional, comparative-historical, comparative-political, geopolitical and cultural-civilizational approaches, and the methods of political communicativistics, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling and observation. After a swift development of social sciences in the twentieth century, including the sphere of international relations, political psychology and political communicativistics, and the development of political technologies given actual impossibility of total wars due to the development of weapons of mass destruction, the necessity had appeared to create new methods of struggle on the international arena which led to the emergence of a theory of information wars. The additional impetus to the development of methods of psychological resistance was given by the situation after the Second World War within the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations, when the world was divided into two camps contesting with each other, among other things, in the sphere of ideology. The complex of the abovementioned factors and the swift development of Mass Media had led to the appearance of a new area of international politics – a cyberspace.

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