Security Threats and Public Perception Digital Russia and the Ukrain

Countless attempts at analyzing Russia’s actions focus on Putin to understand Russia’s military imbroglio in Ukraine, hostility towards America, and disdain of ‘Gayropa’. This book invites its readers to look beyond the man and delve into the online lives

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Elizaveta Gaufman

New Security Challenges Series Editor George Christou Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry, UK

The last decade has demonstrated that threats to security vary greatly in their causes and manifestations and that they invite interest and demand responses from the social sciences, civil society, and a very broad policy community. In the past, the avoidance of war was the primary objective, but with the end of the Cold War the retention of military defence as the centrepiece of international security agenda became untenable. There has been, therefore, a significant shift in emphasis away from traditional approaches to security to a new agenda that talks of the softer side of security, in terms of human security, economic security, and environmental security. The topical New Security Challenges series reflects this pressing political and research agenda.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14732

Elizaveta Gaufman

Security Threats and Public Perception Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis

Elizaveta Gaufman University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany

New Security Challenges ISBN 978-3-319-43200-7 ISBN 978-3-319-43201-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43201-4

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is the result of four years of patient research. Its completion is owed, first and foremost, to the generous support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, who funded the project during its entirety. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to my two supervisor