Speaking of hybrid warfare: Multiple narratives and differing expertise in the 'hybrid warfare' debate in Czechia

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00108367211000799" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00108367211000799</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00108367211000799" target="_blank" >10.1177/00108367211000799</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Speaking of hybrid warfare: Multiple narratives and differing expertise in the 'hybrid warfare' debate in Czechia

Original language description

What do we speak of when we speak of ‘hybrid warfare’, a notion that has become prominent in discussions of European security? The article shows that this question is difficult to answer, as the hybrid warfare discourse is not only vague, but also consists of multiple, and at times contradictory, narratives. While talking and writing about supposedly the same thing, participants in the hybrid warfare debate often suggest markedly different ideas about the precise nature and target of the threat, offer different responses and draw upon different expertise. Grounding our argument in critical scholarship on narratives, security knowledge and hybrid warfare, we build a framework for studying security narratives around the four elements of threat, threatened value, response and underlying knowledge. This framework is utilised in a case study of Czechia, a country that has played a pioneering and outsized role in European hybrid warfare debates. We identify three narratives of hybrid warfare – defence, counterinfluence and education – which present markedly different understandings of ‘hybrid warfare’, and ways to defend against it. Our intervention hopes to contribute to disentangling the contradictions of the hybrid warfare discourse, itself a necessary precondition for both sound state policy and an informed public debate.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-12081S" target="_blank" >GA19-12081S: Transforming Security in the Age of Uncertainty: Understanding the Rise of Hybrid Warfare in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cooperation and Conflict

ISSN

0010-8367

e-ISSN

1460-3691

Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

432-453

UT code for WoS article

000629712700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102491959