Issue ? 53. November 2015

State Institutions and Non-Governmental Actors: Means of Communication

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: natahari@yandex.ru

The article touches upon a relevant issue of the growing role of the global communications environment in the modern world, and its role in the day-to-day functioning of the state institutions, as well as non-government actors. The most significant effect of the issue is present in the sphere of national, as well as regional and global security. Nowadays most threats and challenges come directly from illegal non-government actors, but the specific organizational structure of the latter makes it complicated to meet and overcome them. The article also provides an analysis of key problems of strategic communication between the states and illegal non-government actors such as: subjects of communication, goals of communication, tools of strategic communications and specific issues of their use. Given the fact that illegal non-government actors with their network structure are resistant to the influence of the state as a hierarchical structure, there are weak points of the illegal non-government actors which the state can use to achieve its goals in strategic communication with such actors.

Keywords

Communication, non-government actors, network, terrorist organizations (terror groups), security.