Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations (CEEPIR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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This book offers a much needed critical perspective on the discourses and practices of ‘hybrid warfare’ by innovatively mobilizing approaches from critical security studies and International Political Sociology. By centering the manifold societal processes and actors that are involved in constructing ‘hybrid’ threats, the authors re-politicize allegedly neutral and objective security debates and show how they can promote a war-mindset with far-reaching sociopolitical consequences. Moreover, through careful contextualization within distinct Central European (dis-)continuities, this important analysis furthers the agenda of de-centering security studies from a unique and hitherto underexplored positionality.
-Saskia Stachowitsch, Central European University
In Politics of Hybrid Warfare, Jakub Eberle and Jan Daniel confront the pressing questions of geopolitics and hybrid warfare in the 21st Century. Eberle and Daniel carefully unpick the politics of ‘hybrid warfare’ discourse, the positioning of its advocates, and the assemblages through which this notion has come to dominate our understandings of democracy, peace and war in modern Europe. They uncover how politics has been performed through discourses of hybrid warfare, in the Central European state of Czechia. This book is a must-read for any scholar set upon tackling the ambiguities of hybrid warfare, or understanding how international discourses permeate the domestic politics of European states.
-Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Hybrid Warfare
Book Subtitle: The Remaking of Security in Czechia after 2014
Authors: Jakub Eberle, Jan Daniel
Series Title: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32703-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32702-5Published: 24 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32705-6Due: 25 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32703-2Published: 23 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-7980
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 229
Topics: European Politics, International Security Studies, Foreign Policy, Political Sociology