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Building state resilience against hybrid activities
Building state resilience against hybrid activities

Author(s): Jarosław Keplin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Military policy, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: hybrid activities; hybrid threats; hybrid warfare; state security; state resilience

Summary/Abstract: Ensuring security in an increasingly complex and uncertain world requires states to address a number of challenges. These include the need to remain cooperative in the international space and the need to pursue their strategic objectives. Often these are followed up by intentional or unintentional threats that can effectively destabilise not only a single state, but also an entire region. Their emergence may be the result of a lack of resilience against hostile actions by state or non-state actors who, in order to achieve their objectives, undertake, among other things, hybrid activities. However, the terms ‘state resilience’ and ‘hybrid activities’ are insufficiently precisely formulated in the literature and described in a conceptual rather than a definitional manner. Both national and NATO documents lack universally accepted definitions of these terms. The aim of this article is to present the concept of building state resilience to hybrid activities.

  • Issue Year: 15/2023
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 241-266
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English
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