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Title

Addressing hybrid threats : European law and policies / Luigi Lonardo.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2024]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lonardo, Luigi

Description

ix, 186 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Combining rich theoretical analysis with real-world examples, this erudite book navigates EU law in the context of hybrid threats, examining how security issues affect themes of constitutional law at the heart of a democratic system. Presenting doctrinal and historical insights, the book not only considers the different types of hybrid threats, but also how they are increasingly showing that traditional understandings of security risk are becoming obsolete. Bringing together leading experts in the fields of security, anthropology, and EU law, chapters map out the EU and NATO's responses to five hybrid threats: disinformation, instrumentalisation of migration, cyberthreats, abuses of energy resources, and lawfare. The book focuses on both security and legal issues and answers two interrelated questions: what is the nature of a hybrid threat? And what legal tools are available to the EU to protect its citizens from those threats? The answers to these questions reveal how hybrid threats put increased tension on the capacity of a democratic system to resist rival models. Interdisciplinary in scope, this will be a fundamental resource for researchers, academics and students of European law, terrorism and security law, politics, and international relations. Legal practitioners with a keen interest in EU constitutional law, common foreign and security policy, and internal market regulation will similarly find this to be an indispensable read"--

Series Statement

Elgar studies in European law and policy

Uniform Title

Elgar studies in European law and policy

Subject

• National security > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Computer security > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Cyberterrorism > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Disinformation > European Union countries
• National security > Europe
• Désinformation > Pays de l'Union européenne

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The seriousness of vagueness : introducing European law and policies against hybrid threats / Luigi Lonardo -- Legal aspects of hybrid threats : making sense of the field / Aurel Sari -- From hybrid warfare to 'cybrid' threats, and back? : concepts, challenges, responses / Antonio Missiroli -- Why disinformation is here to stay : a socio-technical analysis of disinformation as a hybrid threat / Nathalie Van Raemdonck and Trisha Meyer -- The EU's 'hybrid' migration wars : a case of mistaken identity / Roderick Parkes -- The EU response to the instrumentalisation of migration : towards normalised derogations, intensified border surveillance and flexible responsibility? / Niovi Vavoula and Vasiliki Apatzidou -- Soft authoritarian lawfare : threats to democracy from within / Jens Adam, Ulrike Flader, Hagen Steinhauer and Shalini Randeria -- EU energy security policy and hybrid threats / Alberto Vecchio.

ISBN

• 9781802207392
• 1802207392
• 9781802207408 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023951243

OCLC

• on1409487104
• SCSB-14725310

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library