Politics of Hybrid Warfare: The Remaking of Security in Czechia after 2014

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problematic Politics of ‘hybrid warfare’
	Problematising ‘hybrid warfare’: A Strange and Counter-productive Discourse
		‘Hybrid warfare’: A ‘lab leak’ from Military Debates
		The Supposed Dangers of HW
		… and the Real Problems
	Explicating the ‘hybrid warfare’ Discourse in Czechia, 2014–2021
		Key Concepts and Arguments
		Research Design, Methods, Data
		Clarifications
	Outline of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Liminal Insecurities: Crises, Geopolitics and the Logic of War
	Liminality and Ontological Insecurity
	Times of Crises: Czechia in 2008–2013
	Maps of Fear: Geopoliticisation and East/West Liminality
	Everything Becomes War: Warification and the War/Peace Liminality
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Formation: Emergence of the ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in Czechia (2014–2016/17)
	Assemblage: Decentred Agency in the Production of (In)security
	2014: Initial Shock, NATO’s Entrepreneurship and First Glimpses of Warification
	2015: Expansion, Domestic Entrepreneurship and Warification Unbound
		Bureaucratic and Military Circles: Shift to Warification
		Media and Civil Society: Growing Interest and Arrival of New Actors
		Intelligence Community: Getting Public
		Migration as an Amplifier
	2016: The Assemblage Comes Together
		EU, NATO and Growing Transnational Exposure of HW
		Civil Society: Rise of the European Values Think Tank
		Official Authorisation: Finalisation of the National Security Audit
		2016/2017: Contesting CTHH and Setting the Main Lines of the HW Debate
	Doing the Assembling: Core Actors and Connections
		European Values Think Tank
		Think Tanks and Masaryk University
		Journalists
		Security Bureaucrats
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Politicisation, Institutionalisation, Internationalisation: The Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in 2017–2021
	Elections, Protests, Epidemics: Normalisation of HW and Branching of the Assemblage
		Hopes, Frustrations and ‘Disinformation’: The Elections of 2017 and 2018
		Hybrid War and Czech Politics: From the Parliamentary Floor to a Prague Square
		Covid-19: From a Hybrid Threat to a Social Problem
		The Vrbětice Attack: Hybrid Warfare or State Terrorism?
	The Institutionalisation of the Assemblage and Specialisation of Its Members
		State Institutions
		Civil Society
	Internationalisation of the HW Assemblage
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Differentiation: Three Main Narratives of ‘hybrid warfare’
	Defence Narrative: Protecting the State from External Threats
	Counterinfluence Narrative: Subversive Agents Within the Society
	Education Narrative: Fostering Responsible Individuals
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Boundaries: Expertise, Authority and Contestation in the Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Debate
	Assemblage, Expertise and Its Boundaries
	Intelligence Expertise and History Education
		(Counter)Intelligence Expertise and the HW Threat in the BIS Annual Reports
		Setting the Boundaries of BIS Authority: The Supposedly Pro-Soviet History Education
	Journalistic Expertise and the Ricin Affair
		Journalistic Expertise and HW
		Ricin Affair and the Limits of Journalistic HW Expertise
	Academic Criticism: Limits to Warification and the Possibility to Think HW Differently
		And Against the Trolls Have Risen the Elves …
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reclaiming Politics from the Logic of War
	Dismantling ‘hybrid warfare’
	Thinking Different Politics
		Slowness as De-escalation
		Vulnerability as We-ness
		Rethinking Democratic Conflict
	References
List of Interviews
Index