Overview

In the current geopolitical environment, liberal democracies vie for influence and prosperity with autocratic governments, such as those of China and Russia. While the great powers do not shy away from using aggressive force, much of their rivalry today takes place below the threshold of armed conflict, in a conceptual and practical 'grey zone' between war and peace. Autocratic states operate in this grey zone to target the vulnerabilities of liberal democracies, creating hybrid threats that rely on instruments ranging from economic, diplomatic, legal, and informational pressure all the way to military coercion. Law plays a critical role in this context. In the ethically and legally ambiguous grey zone, international law serves as a normative, yet malleable, framework within which geopolitical rivals compete. State and non-State actors invoke the law as the source of authority, while simultaneously hoping to shape the international legal order in their own strategic interests. Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict offers the first in-depth assessment of the legal and ethical aspects of hybrid threats and grey zone conflict. It explores the responses available to democratic nations for countering hybrid and grey zone threats whilst adhering to liberal democratic values and the rule of law. Bringing together diverse scholarly and practitioner perspectives, the volume introduces readers to the conceptual and practical difficulties arising in this area, the rich debates the topic has generated, and the challenges that countering hybrid threats and grey zone conflict poses for liberal democracies. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about contemporary forms of strategic competition below the threshold of open hostilities.

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Author:   Mitt Regan (McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director, Center on National Security Georgetown Law Center) ,  Aurel Sari (Associate Professor of Public International Law, Associate Professor of Public International Law, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:  

9780197744772

ISBN 10:   019774477
Pages:   744
Publication Date:   07 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Aurel Sari and Mitt Regan I - WHAT ARE HYBRID THREATS AND GREY ZONE CONFLICT? 2. The Grey Zone and Hybrid Conflict: A Conceptual Introduction Christopher Marsh 3. Grey Zone Conflict and Military Affairs: Questioning the Premise Melanie W. Sisson 4. We Have Met the Grey Zone and He is Us: How Grey Zone Warfare Exploits Our Undecidedness about What Matters to Us Duncan MacIntosh 5. Legal Aspects of Grey Zone and Hybrid Threats: A Primer Hitoshi Nasu 6. The Divide between War and Peace Tobias Vestner 7. Rethinking Coercion in Cyberspace Ido Kilovaty II - ARENAS OF HYBRID AND GREY ZONE COMPETITION 8. A Topography of Information-Based Foreign Influence Beba Cibralic 9. In Pursuit of Geopolitical Advantage: Hacking Below the Threshold of War Melissa K. Griffith 10. Lawfare, China, and the Grey Zone Orde F. Kittrie 11. Emerging Bio-Technologies for Disruptive Effects in Grey Zone Engagements Joseph DeFranco, Diane DiEuliis, L. R. Bremseth, and James Giordano 12. The Maritime Domain David Letts 13. The Evolving Chinese Strategy in the Arctic: Entering the Grey Zone? Camilla T. N. Sørensen 14. Hybrid and Grey Zone Operations in Outer Space Melissa de Zwart III - INSTRUMENTS, TACTICS, AND METHODS IN THE GREY ZONE 15. Decoding Grey Zone Environments Andrés B. Muñoz Mosquera and Nikoleta Chalanouli 16. Coercing Well: The Logic, Grammar, and Norms of the Grey Zone C. Anthony Pfaff 17. Lying in the Grey Zone Steven Wheatley 18. Rethinking the International Law of Interference in the Digital Age Steven J. Barela and Samuli Haataja 19. Trapped in the Grey Zone: International Law Applicable to Non-State Actors Agata Kleczkowska 20. From Red Scare to Red Scare, Grey Zone to Grey Zone: Weaponizing Dissent and Civil Society Tyler Wentzell and Barbara J. Falk 21. A Grey Zone Analytic Framework for Military Operations Maegen Nix and Welton Chang IV - COUNTERING HYBRID AND GREY ZONE THREATS: HOW CAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES RESPOND? 22. An Ethical Framework for Assessing Grey Zone Responses Ed Barrett 23. Winning at the Strategic Seams Michael A. Newton 24. Legal Resilience: Just a Warm and Fuzzy Concept? Aurel Sari 25. How to Involve Civil Society in Grey Zone Defence Elisabeth Braw 26. Security Assistance by Liberal Democracies: Tensions in the Grey Zone Mitt Regan & Sarah Harrison 27. The Practice of Legal Resilience: Insights from the Maritime Incident of 31 May 2010 Marlene Mazel 28. Legal Resilience from a Finnish Perspective Tiina Ferm 29. The Path to Legal Resilience Andrés B. Muñoz Mosquera, Jean Emmanuel Perrin, Panagiotis Sergis, Rodrigo Vázquez Benítez, and Borja Montes Toscano

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Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Center on National Security at Georgetown Law Center, and is Faculty Coordinator for the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, Ukraine. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy, and is a member of an expert group advising the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on legal and ethical dimensions of AI applications in military operations. He works in the fields of international law on the use of force, international human rights law, international criminal law, and military ethics. Aurel Sari is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. His work focuses primarily on international conflict and security law and the law relating to military operations. He has spoken and written widely on the legal aspects of hybrid threats, including at the invitation of the Council of Europe, NATO, the European Commission, and the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.

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