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Dimitri
MINIC

Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

  • Russian strategic thought
  • Russian armed forces
  • Russian political-strategic culture
  • Threat perceptions
  • Russian political-military elites
  • Russian nuclear deterrence
  • Franco-Russian relations

Dimitri Minic is a researcher at the Russia/Eurasia Center at Ifri. He has a doctorate in the history of international relations from Sorbonne University (2021) and is the author of Pensée et culture stratégiques russes : du contournement de la lutte armée à la guerre en Ukraine (Paris, Maison des sciences de l’homme, April 2023), the book based on his thesis for which he received the Albert Thibaudet Prize. His research focuses in particular on Russian strategic thought, the strategic culture of Russian military and political elites, threat perception, the Russian army and its hybrid and high-intensity capabilities, as well as Russian nuclear deterrence and Russo-Western relations.

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Russian Strategic Thinking and Culture Before and After February 24, 2022: Political-Strategic Aspects

26 September 2024

Written by Dimitri Minic, the scientific article "Russian Strategic Thinking and Culture Before and After February 24, 2022: Political-Strategic Aspects" in Russia’s war against Ukraine: Complexity of Contemporary Clausewitzian War by the National Defence University Department of Warfare, Helsinki 2024.

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Studies

What Does the Russian Army Think About its War in Ukraine? Criticisms, Recommendations, Adaptations

21 September 2023

The Russian army is very critical of its war in Ukraine. Not just of the first phase of the failed special military operation (SVO), which was inspired by the theorization of bypassing, but also of the strategic deterrence phase that preceded it.

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How the Russian Army Changed its Concept of War, 1993-2022

23 May 2023

The traditional and high-intensity war that has occurred in Ukraine since Russia decided to invade raises a key issue: did post-soviet Russian strategic thought really prepare Russia for waging this war?

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Papers

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: A Political-Strategic Break?

09 May 2022

On February 24, 2022, eight years after deploying an integrated military and non-military indirect strategy against Kiev, Vladimir Putin decided to initiate an open war against Ukraine.

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