Hybrid economic wars. Conflict model, its development and use in international trade policy

The subject of research is the conflict model of the international trade and economic policy of the
state in the conditions of hybrid economic wars.
The аim of the article is to review (demonstrate) the developed conflict model of trade policy, and
the choice of options for strategic behavior of states in international trade conflicts in the context of
global economic and hybrid wars.
Research methodology – the method of modeling and game theory is used to develop a conflict
model of state trade policy; method of analysis of options for strategic behavior of the state and its
trade and economic policy.
Results of research. The model of the conflict and formation of strategies of trade policy which
explains internal logic of development of strategic behavior and development of trade policy is offered;
the variants of the strategic trade policy of the state in the conditions of hybrid economic wars are
defined and analyzed.
Application of results – economic sector: management of the national economy, international trade,
international economic relations. The results of the study will allow to develop recommendations for the
development and definition of a national strategy for trade and economic policy in the context of hybrid
economic wars. The global perspective of increasing the number of trade and economic wars between
developed countries makes it important to develop its own strategy of trade and economic policy.
Conclusions. Modern economic wars are becoming a major feature of international relations. In
combination with other unarmed means of struggle, economic wars are aimed at obtaining economic
and political advantages, additional profits, resource grab, markets for goods of their own production,
the destruction of competitors, the ability to manipulate public consciousness, the ability to significantly
influence the achievement of political goals in interstate conflicts through penetration into the economic
sphere of the state, further strengthening its own economic influence and establishing control over its
domestic and foreign policy.
International trade contributes to the development of the economy when the state applies the right
strategy to combine the policy of protectionism and "free trade", constantly adapting and acting in accordance with the trade strategies of opposing states.
Modern developed countries at the stage of formation in different combinations resorted to
protectionism, subsidies and administrative regulation in order to develop the national economy, and
did not apply the principles of free trade, which they recommend to underdeveloped countries, not
wanting to create competitors.