Politics of Hybrid Warfare

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.

• 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.