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Dimitri
Nom de l'expert
MINIC

Intitulé du poste

Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Domaine d'expertises En

Research Areas:

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

Dimitri Minic is a Research Fellow at Ifri’s Russia/Eurasia Center, where he also serves as Deputy Editor-in-chief of the digital collections Russie.Eurasie.Visions and Russie.Eurasie.Reports. He is a historian with a PhD in History of International Relations from Sorbonne University (2021). His research focuses primarily on Russian strategic thought and culture, Russian military and politico-military elites, the Russian armed forces, and Russia’s hybrid and high-intensity capabilities. He also specializes in Russian strategic and nuclear deterrence and relations between Russia and the West. He is the author of Pensée et culture stratégiques russes: du contournement de la lutte armée à la guerre en Ukraine (Russian Strategic Thought and Culture: From Bypassing Armed Struggle to the War in Ukraine, Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, April 2023), a book that is based on his doctoral thesis and for which he received the Prize Albert Thibaudet 2023.

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Russia's Nuclear Deterrence Put to the Test by the War in Ukraine

Date de publication
06 October 2025
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From the outset of its “special military operation” (SVO) against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russia, which possesses one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, has adopted aggressive deterrence measures and a resolutely menacing rhetorical stance.

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

Date de publication
26 September 2024
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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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What Does the Russian Army Think About its War in Ukraine? Criticisms, Recommendations, Adaptations

Date de publication
21 September 2023
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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

Date de publication
23 May 2023
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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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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: A Political-Strategic Break?

Date de publication
09 May 2022
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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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