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Abstract

New waves of globalization and regionalization, accompanied by the competitive struggle of world and regional powers in the geopolitical space, contribute to the emergence of new challenges and security threats to the national interests of all states, including Armenia. One of these threats is the situation of ‘no war, no peace’ or ‘war, no peace’ as a new form of hybrid wars, therefore, the study of the phenomenon of modern ‘hot wars’ and ‘cold peace’, the characteristics of their most important aspects is of political scientific interest and is the focus of attention of modern social and humanitarian research.

Modern ‘hot wars’ and ‘cold peace’ are quite complex phenomena, since by their nature they imply the use of military and non-military technologies simultaneously or alternately, depending on the object of influence. Military technologies include the use of special forces, private military companies, terrorist and extremist groups, partisan detachments and others. Non-military technologies or tools include intelligence and subversive activities of special services, information wars, cyber wars, sanctions wars, media resources, Internet space, social networks, etc.

Modern warfare can include traditional warfare, guerrilla tactics, terrorist attacks, criminal violence, and coercion. All these various activities can be carried out by different methods or even by one department, but with one goal in order to obtain the greatest synergistic and psychological effect. In this context, an example is today’s hybrid events in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and other hot spots in which the army, terrorist groups, private military companies, criminals, and protest potential are involved, etc.