Features of Conducting Information Wars in the XXI Century
( Pp. 131-137)

The transformation of the world order has led to a rather serious change in the issues of war and peace in the XXI century. The development of competition between states leads to the search for new tools for implementing policies and their goals on the world stage. Information wars are the use of information and related technologies to gain an advantage over the enemy and are becoming more widespread in the world every year, which undoubtedly indicates the relevance of the topic. In this regard, the author of the study set a goal to identify the main features of waging information wars in the XXI century. New threats and challenges, such as cyber warfare, global terrorism, hybrid conflicts, proxy wars, environmental conflicts and insurgent movements are closely interconnected with information wars. Questions of warfare have long gone beyond simple technological innovations and are rather a rethinking of the ways in which the actors involved interact. The leap in information technology leads to a modification of the means that information wars have. All this undoubtedly speaks to the importance of critically understanding the consequences of these new ways of conducting information wars, especially with regard to their ability to distort the global and political dynamics of the development of international relations.

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information war, cyber war, global terrorism, hybrid conflicts, proxy wars, environmental conflicts, insurgent movements.