Addressing Hybrid Threats : European Law and Policies / edited by Luigi Lonardo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Lonardo, Luigi, editor.

Series:

Elgar studies in European law and policy.

Elgar Studies in European Law and Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer security--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Computer security.

Cyberterrorism--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Cyberterrorism.

Disinformation--European Union countries.

Disinformation.

National security--Europe.

National security.

National security--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. The seriousness of vagueness: introducing European law and policies against hybrid threats

2. Legal aspects of hybrid threats: making sense of the field

3. From hybrid warfare to 'cybrid' threats - and back? Concepts, challenges, responses

4. Why disinformation is here to stay. A socio-technical analysis of disinformation as a hybrid threat

5. The EU's 'hybrid' migration wars: a case of mistaken identity

6. The EU response to the instrumentalisation of migration: towards normalised derogations, intensified border surveillance and flexible responsibility?

7. Soft authoritarian lawfare. Threats to democracy from within

8. EU energy security policy and hybrid threats

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lonardo, Luigi Addressing Hybrid Threats

ISBN:

9781802207408