04088oam 22005055 450 991073483830332120231025222146.03-031-32703-910.1007/978-3-031-32703-2(MiAaPQ)EBC30606114(Au-PeEL)EBL30606114(DE-He213)978-3-031-32703-2(CKB)27195928700041(EXLCZ)992719592870004120230623d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolitics of hybrid warfare the remaking of security in Czechia after 2014 /Jakub Eberle, Jan Daniel1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (238 pages)Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations,2947-7999Print version: Eberle, Jakub Politics of Hybrid Warfare Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031327025 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.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.Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations,2947-7999Hybrid warfareCzech RepublicSecurity, InternationalCzech RepublicCzech RepublicForeign relationsCzech RepublicPolitics and governmentHybrid warfareSecurity, International355.03304371Eberle Jakub1373744Daniel Jan1373745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910734838303321Politics of Hybrid Warfare3404872UNINA