Mobilisation-State
Mobilisation State
Working definition of mobilisation state: post-2012/2022 shift in which criminal networks, black-cash channels and authoritarian alliances are treated as instruments of regime survival and hybrid warfare.
Mobilisation State: Intensification after 2014 and 2022
Historical context: post-2014 and especially post-2022 shift toward treating criminal networks, black-cash channels and authoritarian alliances as instruments of regime survival and hybrid warfare.
What is a “Mobilisation State”?
Short answer: analytical term for the post-2012/2022 shift in which criminal networks, black-cash channels and authoritarian alliances are treated as instruments of regime survival, sanctions circumvention and hybrid pressure.
Historical Trajectory
Chronological context of the Russian political-economic system: GULAG legacies, 1990s criminalisation, post-2000 consolidation under Uber Krysha, and post-2014/2022 mobilisation state. Source-linked.