SCEEUS Guest Report No. 6
Introduction
In May 2025, the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs gathered a group of leading specialists and researchers focusing on various dimensions of Russian security and military affairs. The conference, “The Future Russian Way of War,” was organized around four broad themes: 1) state mobilization; 2) military reform; 3) nuclear deterrence; and 4) hybrid tools.
Part 4: Hybrid tools
This is the fourth installment to be published from the conference, centered around its fourth theme, hybrid tools. It contains two papers.
The first paper, by Carolina Vendil Pallin, a researcher with the Swedish Defence Research Agency, deals with Russia’s approach to cyber warfare. She describes how cyber warfare is part of Russia’s broader thinking on information security, the vulnerabilities that Russian authorities have identified within this area, and how threats to Russian information security can be countered also with offensive tools.
The second paper, by Katri Pynnöniemi, Professor of Russian Security Studies at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish National Defence University, describes Russian thinking on the future of warfare. She describes what has been labelled a ‘revisionist’ approach to warfare, where non-traditional and indirect means are prioritised over traditional armed struggle, and non-military measures play an increasingly important role.
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