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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-12081S" target="_blank" >GA19-12081S: Proměna bezpečnosti v době nejistoty: pochopení vzestupu hybridní války v České republice</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Cooperation and Conflict

ISSN

0010-8367

e-ISSN

1460-3691

Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

432-453

Kód UT WoS článku

000629712700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85102491959