What is a “Mobilisation State”?

Short Answer

Mobilisation state is an analytical description of the post-2012/2022 shift in which criminal networks, black-cash channels and authoritarian alliances are treated as usable instruments of regime survival, sanctions circumvention and hybrid warfare.

Slightly Longer Answer

The term (associated especially with Galeotti / GI-TOC 2024) does not claim that the entire state has become a permanent classical wartime economy. It points to intensification of pre-existing symbiotic and patronage arrangements: they are more systematically tasked for dual-use procurement, deniable operations, black-cash generation and support to partner regimes under external pressure. The underlying architecture (Uber Krysha, state–crime symbiosis) was not invented after 2022; it was externalised and accelerated.

Full period context: Historical – Mobilisation State. Mechanism: Hybrid Statecraft Tools.

See Also

• Glossary: Mobilisation state
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• Entity: Mobilisation state