Образование: исторический факультет МГПУ и магистратура Дипломатической академии МИД России по специальности "международные отношения". Работал журналистом-международником. Автор более 30 научных работ, опубликованных в отечественных и зарубежных журналах. Сфера интересов: история, внешняя и внутренняя политика, экономика и культура стран Южной Азии и региона Индийского океана, история и теория международных отношений. Иностранные языки: английский, хинди.
Dr Kupriyanov studied the Anglo-Saxon History at the Department of History of the Moscow City Teacher Training University and English language and literature in Ireland. He has a master’s degree in IR after graduating from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Dr Kupriyanov worked as a foreign affairs journalist on TV and in various newspapers. Research interests: history and modernity of the countries of South, Southeast and East Asia, Indian external policy, Indo-Pacific region, Indo-Chinese relations, IR theory. Languages : English, Hindi.
Образование: 2001 г. – Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова, юридический факультет. Сфера научных интересов: ВМС стран мира, локальные конфликты, военно-техническое сотрудничество, военная и военно-морская история нового и новейшего времени. Профиль автора в Science Index
В последние десятилетия в мире наблюдается процесс постепенного роста так называемых нетрадиционных угроз безопасности: контрабанды товаров, торговли людьми, незаконного оборота оружия и наркотиков, пиратства. В условиях противостояния между США и КНР неизбежно расширение существующих “серых зон”, одна из которых находится у побережья Восточной Африки. На основе анализа ситуации, сложившейся в регионе, авторы приходят к выводу, что восточноафриканские страны испытывают потребность в поставщике безопасности, который помог бы им справиться с нетрадиционными угрозами. Это дает возможность России нарастить влияние в регионе при помощи морских частных военных компаний “нового облика”.
In recent decades, some researchers and experts have written a lot about the fact that the monopoly of nation-states on external violence is gradually disappearing, and non-state entities are becoming more and more proactive, challenging the state. Among these actors are criminal groups, underground trade networks, smugglers, slave traders, drug traffickers, gun runners, terrorist groups, pirates. All of them pose so-called non-traditional threats and challenges to states. In the context of the new Cold War, their activities are intensifying. This article is devoted to the analysis of the situation in the coastal waters of East Africa, one of the so-called gray zones, where non-state shadow actors are especially active. The authors investigate the capabilities of the East African states to withstand non-traditional maritime challenges and threats and come to the conclusion that these states are unable to cope on their own. The great powers, on the other hand, are focused on confronting each other and have no capacity to divert forces for operations to maintain order in distant regions. The authors believe that in these conditions, Russia is faced with new opportunities: it can create and send to the region private maritime security companies of a new type, New Order PMSC, which will be financed through a contract with the client state and at the same time will help to strengthen Russia's influence. Unlike ordinary PMSCs, they are not interested in dragging out the conflict, their goal is to eliminate hotbeds of danger and prepare the coast guard forces of client states to deal with potential threats. The activities of these companies will be equally beneficial to the states of East Africa and Russia. The authors propose an approximate composition of such PMSCs, outline the goals and objectives they face, and make certain that with the help of relatively low costs, Russia can improve the effectiveness of its policy in the region.
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.