UDC

327

Authors

Manoylo Andrey Viktorovich
Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Scientific Council, Security Council of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
e-mail: cyberhurricane@yandex.ru
Zhuravel Valery Petrovich
Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)
e-mail: zhvalery@mail.ru

Abstract

It has not been so long since the sudden terrorist attack of Islamists on the Paris headquarters of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people, shocked and rocked the whole world. French police, the army and security forces could neither prevent the attack nor protect the civilians: Old Europe was completely defenceless in the face of the new global terrorist threat. Responsibility for this terrorist attack was claimed by the most dangerous Islamist group: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which had previously announced the dismantling of the “new Roman Empire of Western Christians” and establishment of the Islamic Caliphate in Europe. In this, ISIS counts on the help of the Muslim population in Europe, which, de facto living in enclaves, controls significant parts of Europe’s largest cities. In addition to the global terrorist threat hanging over the EU, passionate protest potential of Muslim diasporas in Europe is seeking an outlet in the form of various “Maidans” – predicates of colour revolutions that for the old European countries are becoming ever more real. Modern colour revolutions are a technology of forced dismantling of political regimes, successfully combining “hard” methods with “soft” technologies of manipulative control over mass consciousness and behaviour of the civilian population. For a long time it was believed that colour revolutions present no danger for the perfectly democratic regimes of Old Europe, as these technologies had been invented by American Anglo-Saxons, the only ones who know how to use them. Meanwhile, the world is changing and the latest modifications of colour revolution technologies, adopted by African-American Islamists, have been successfully applied in Ferguson and St. Louis and just as well can be used within the EU where there are similar problems with diasporas, unwilling to assimilate with the European population and increasingly aware of their own strength.

Keywords

international relations, foreign policy, political regime, colour revolutions, dismantling of political regimes, international conflict, USA, Ukraine, colour revolution technology, national interests, national values

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