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Systemic Destabilisation Warfare (SDW) presents a ground-breaking redefinition of modern conflict, arguing that twenty-first-century warfare has migrated from physical battlefields into the cognitive, informational, institutional, and emotional infrastructures of society. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across geopolitics, psychology, security studies, and systems theory, the book demonstrates that the most decisive threats facing contemporary democracies no longer arise from traditional military confrontation, but from continuous, low-visibility pressures that undermine social cohesion, distort public reasoning, and erode institutional stability. The author shows how technological interdependence, social-media dynamics, identity fragmentation, and the saturation of information have created an environment in which disruption is easier to generate than coherence. In this emergent battlespace, state and non-state actors alike exploit cognitive biases, emotional vulnerabilities, and system-level weaknesses to destabilise societies without crossing the thresholds associated with conventional warfare.

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Artur Vitória is a Portuguese writer and involved in several associative activities Education - He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in 1974 and is a graduate of the National Defence Institute in Lisbon, Portugal (1990). Dedicated to his academic career, in 1980 he became a researcher at the Foreign Relations Observatory of the Autonomous University of Lisbon. Commends: D. Afonso Henriques Medal - Army Merit 2nd Class with Commendation on 6th November 2015. Medal of the Cross of Saint George on 18 June 2020. honorary orders Knight of the Order of Rio Branco on 7 December 2022. Knight of the Order of Naval Merit on 11 June 2019. Officer of the Order of Naval Merit on 11 June 2021. Knight of the Order of Aeronautical Merit on 23 October 2016. Officer of the Order of Aeronautical Merit on 23 October 2020.

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