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Politics of Hybrid Warfare: The Remaking of Security in Czechia after 2014: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations

Autor Jakub Eberle, Jan Daniel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iun 2023
This is a first book-long analysis showing how the notion of ‘hybrid warfare’ was used to transform security policies and discourses in an EU/NATO country. Building on current debates in International Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, and Critical Geopolitics, it provides a novel account of how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty, and expertise are intertwined in the social construction of threats. Based on extensive and original empirical research of large textual archive and elite interviews in the Czech Republic and Brussels, the book shows how officials, bureaucrats, journalists, activists, and experts all participate in the reshaping of security in a new geopolitical environment. Zooming on the case of Czechia and its specific Central European context, it complements the predominantly Western-centric studies of insecurity with an account of how the liminal position on an East/West boundary influences security politics. As a first study of its kind and scope, it will be of interest to academics and students interested in Central European politics, practices and discourses of hybrid warfare, as well as critical approaches to security and geopolitics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031327025
ISBN-10: 3031327020
Pagini: 229
Ilustrații: XIV, 229 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: The Problematic Politics of ‘hybrid warfare’.- 2. Liminal Insecurities: Crises, Geopolitics and the Logic of War.- 3. Formation: Emergence of the ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in Czechia (2014–2016/17).- 4. Politicisation, Institutionalisation, Internationalisation: The Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in 2017–2021.- 5. Differentiation: Three Main Narratives of ‘hybrid warfare’.- 6. Boundaries: Expertise, Authority and Contestation in the Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Debate.- 7. Conclusion: Reclaiming Politics from the Logic of War.

Notă biografică

Jakub Eberle is Research Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He works on IR theory, Czech and German foreign policy, and politics of Central Europe. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (2019).
 
Jan Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research mostly draws on International Political Sociology and Critical Security and Peace Studies and focuses on politics of (in)security in Central Europe and the Middle East.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book offers a timely and trenchant addition to the vanguard of critical political thought in Central Europe. Reclaiming politics from the logic of war, the book provides a sobering cut into the political work of hybrid warfare discourse. With its theoretical sophistication and thick empirical embeddedness in the stories from the ‘in-between zone’ of Czechia, this is a must-read for untangling the lazy causality between the problems with Western democracies and Russian subversive actions.
 -Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen

This is a first book-long analysis showing how the notion of ‘hybrid warfare’ was used to transform security policies and discourses in an EU/NATO country. Building on current debates in International Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, and Critical Geopolitics, it provides a novel account of how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty, and expertise are intertwined in the social construction of threats. Based on extensive and original empirical research of large textual archive and elite interviews in the Czech Republic and Brussels, the book shows how officials, bureaucrats, journalists, activists, and experts all participate in the reshaping of security in a new geopolitical environment. Zooming on the case of Czechia and its specific Central European context, it complements the predominantly Western-centric studies of insecurity with an account of how the liminal position on an East/West boundary influences security politics. As a first study of its kind and scope, it will be of interest to academics and students interested in Central European politics, practices and discourses of hybrid warfare, as well as critical approaches to security and geopolitics.

Jakub Eberle is Research Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He works on IR theory, Czech and German foreign policy, and politics of Central Europe. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (2019).

Jan Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research mostly draws on International Political Sociology and Critical Security and Peace Studies and focuses on politics of (in)security in Central Europe and the Middle East.

Caracteristici

Highlights how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty and expertise are intertwined in the social construction of threats Argues that the warification of social issues under the banner of fighting hybrid warfare is a self-defeating strategy Presents an alternative strategy of democratic repoliticisation that strives to challenge the war-like mobilisation