Title Politics of hybrid warfare : the remaking of security in Czechia after 2014 / Jakub Eberle, Jan Daniel

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) Series Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations series. Contents 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 (20142016/17) -- 4. Politicisation, Institutionalisation, Internationalisation: The Czech hybrid warfare Assemblage in 20172021 -- 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 Summary 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 Mlksoo, 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2023) Subject Security, International -- Czech Republic Hybrid warfare -- Czech Republic Diplomatic relations Hybrid warfare Politics and government Security, International SUBJECT Czech Republic -- Foreign relations Czech Republic -- Politics and government Subject Czech Republic Form Electronic book Author Daniel, Jan (Researcher), author. ISBN 9783031327032 3031327039

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