Full Description
This book examines hybrid threats within the broader context of a security crisis in Europe.
As geopolitical tensions increase and great power rivalries intensify, can states protect their communities? While conventional wars are fought, parallel battles take place by more subtle and non-violent means. This multi-disciplinary book examines how hybrid threats undermine political governance and social stability in liberal democracies, covering aggressors, targeted states and victimized communities. It seeks to address how aggressor states undermine liberal democracies under the threshold of conflict, and the role played by hybrid threats as aggressor states prepare for full-scale war. The chapters also explore how liberal democracies organize and interact to detect hybrid threats, arguing that, in order to increase resilience, politicians and government agencies must involve the private sector and citizens in threat-reduction policies. The analysis builds upon the latest research in the international crisis management literature.
This book will be of interest to students of security studies, hybrid warfare, defence studies and International Relations, as well as professional practitioners.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Contents
1. Understanding Hybrid Threats: An Introduction Part I: The Threat 2. Contemporary Research on Hybrid Threats: Status and Future Avenues 3. Hybrid Threats as a Threat to Democracy: Soft and Smart Tactics and Three Dimensions of Democracy 4. Identifying Hybrid Threats from a National Security Perspective: The Case of Chinese Hybrid Threats in Australia Part II: The Ukrainian Experience 5. Hybrid Threats in Cyberspace: What Do Russia's Cyberspace Operations in Ukraine Tell Us? 6. The Transformation of Hybrid Threats into Full-Scale War: The Case of Ukraine, 2014-2022 7. Countering Russia's Hybrid War: The Orchestration of Ukraine's National Resilience Part III: Response Strategies 8. Civic Communities or Armed Forces as First Line of Defence? 9. Municipal Preparedness Against Hybrid Threats: How Can Military Experiences Be Used? 10. Hybrid Threats and the 'New' Total Defence: The Case of Sweden 11. Information Sharing in Complex Crises: The Case of Joint Domain-Specific Centers in Norway 12. Hybrid Threat Intelligence Through Virtual Networks: The Role of Network Entrepreneurs Part IV: Knowledge and Resilience 13. Hybrid Threats and Comprehensive Defence in Small Diverse Societies: The Case of Estonia 14. Hybrid Threats and the Power of Identity: Comparing Croatia and Ukraine 15. Building Competence Against Hybrid Threats: Training and Exercising Hybrid Command Organizations 16. Competence for Hybrid Threats: A Strategic Competitive Development Model Part V: Conclusions 17. Towards a Hybrid Threat Response Model
