Роль и место технологий «цветных революций» в событиях «арабской весны»

Abstract

The article examines the events that took hold of the region of the Middle East and North Africa, united under the bright and elegant name "Arab Spring". However, the colorful term hides the phenomenon of an unsightly part of modern politics - a part that is a special technology of "hybrid warfare". "Hybrid warfare" arose from the ruins of the bipolar system, and it includes all methods of undermining, destroying and ruining the nation state. "Hybrid warfare" is the complex hostile actions of the leading Western powers, carried out against geopolitical competitors. The "color revolution" is a component of the "hybrid warfare", more precisely, it is a specific operational phase that is limited in time and space. This is a special operation, in which, as a rule, a very long preparatory period is allocated (it can last up to ten years), when a pro-Western anti-state elite is formed in the country — object of the "hybrid warfare", the NGO sector is financed, mass media resources of neoliberal, westernized type are founded. The operational, visible, phase of the "color revolution" is short-term; as a rule, it lasts from one day to a couple of weeks. It is expressed in mass, in the overwhelming majority youth protests, organized by means of cognitive and technological methods. More than representative examples of Libya and Syria, as the main regional geopolitical competitors of the West, are used to demonstrate the preparatory and operational phase of the "color revolutions", which have reached the extreme goal of the "hybrid warfare": the deployment of a full-scale civil war, the formation of parallel government bodies supported from outside, and foreign armed intervention. The “color revolution” does not depend on the socio-economic conditions in the country, its deployment depends only on the will and goals of the "customers". Libya and Syria have shown that "color revolutions" pave the way and serve as a locomotive for the outbreak of civil war and foreign intervention. As a result, Libya, which challenged the Western financial system, was thrown out of civilizational development; the country currently has not a single formal sign of a state left. For a decade, Syria has been waging an endless unequal battle for the right to preserve statehood and an independent path of development. The article contains voluminous material for the formation of students in the framework of the "International Relations" field. English version of the article is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/role-and-place-of-colour-revolution-technologies-in-the-events-of-the-arab-spring/76946.html