Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century: The Influence and Effects of the Politics, Information and Communication Mix

This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare's political and informational influence and effects.

Iulian Chifu is the State Counsellor of the Romanian Prime Minister for Foreign Relations, Security and Strategic Affairs. He was the Founder and President of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Centre Bucharest.

Greg Simons is a Researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University in Sweden and a Lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences at Turiba University in Riga, Latvia.