Hybrid Warfare in the Baltics: Threats and Potential Responses

Radin, Andrew

doi:10.7249/rr1577

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“…Some phases of such scenarios are possible without any physical crossing of a border between Russia and the state under attack; and some of these actions may have already started (see Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service 2019). 5 "Little green men" could also come from within and be "men in jeans" (see Radin 2017, Braun 2019, with actions being covertly orchestrated from abroad. This can unfold over a long period of time.…”

Section: The Evolving Nature Of the Russian Threatmentioning

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The risks of NATO’s maladaptation

Tardy

2020

European Security

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This article deals with the process of adaptation that NATO has gone through over the last decade. It contends that while seeking congruence with its environment, NATO is facing a risk of maladaptation that pertains to its positioning as a defence or security actor. On the one hand, NATO has adapted by going back to the basics of deterrence and defence in the new Cold War context provoked by Russia's annexation of Crimea; in the meantime though, this move has created tensions for the organisation as it had to simultaneously cope with an increasingly diverse security environment that tends to pull NATO away from a narrow defence-focused agenda. Whether NATO does defence or embraces a broader security agenda reflects dilemmas and tradeoffs that are at the heart of the Alliance's quest for relevance. This article explores NATO's adaptation since 2014, unpacks the rationale, dilemmas and policy implications of the quest for congruence, and identifies vulnerabilities that the adaptation process may unintentionally lead to.

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Section: The Evolving Nature Of the Russian Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The risks of NATO’s maladaptation

Tardy

2020

European Security

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“…Nonviolence is not silent on issues of defence and security. Indeed, nonviolent techniques, tactics and strategies already represent the reality of modern conflicts – paradoxically they are embraced by a full range of actors, some of which certainly do not qualify as civilian powers (Bartkowski, ; Radin, ). They were deployed in the processes of decolonization and democratization all around the world, from Western Sahara to Egypt, from Tunisia to Georgia.…”

Section: The Question Of Eu Powermentioning

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What Has Nonviolence Got To Do With The EU?

Baldoli

Radaelli

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Nonviolence has an established tradition in several disciplines, including political theory, international relations and political science. But its potential for the European Union (EU) has not been appraised yet. Thus, we set out to explore nonviolence as an analytical and normative framework for the study of the EU. At the outset, we introduce nonviolence and define our approach to this concept. We then apply our analytical and normative framework to three critical issues concerning the nature of EU power, the democratic deficit and the narrative of integration. We find that nonviolence re-defines the core dimensions of power and democracy, and imagines the EU in non-state-morphic ways, situating praxis at the roots of the integration process and its narrative.

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“…The article suggests that a large-scale conventional Russian incursion into the Baltics, which is legitimized and supported by political subversion, would rapidly overwhelm NATO forces postured in the region. However, Radin takes a somewhat different approach in suggesting how to deter such attacks and makes three broad recommendations: first, the security forces of the Baltic countries need to be strengthened, second, a more sophisticated and subtle strategic campaign should be developed, including support for Russian-language television stations backed by the governments of the Baltic countries and third, actions should be taken to mitigate the risks that a NATO deployment in the Baltic region will increase the potential for low-level Russian aggression (Radin, 2017). The policy conclusions of these two studies alone clearly demonstrate that the same challenge could be solved in many different ways.…”

Section: Literature On Conventional Threat Scenarios In the Baltic Rementioning

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Researching Baltic security challenges after the annexation of Crimea

Veebel

2019

Journal on Baltic Security

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The article aims to provide an insight into academic and military studies that investigate security challenges in the Baltic region after the annexation of Crimea. To do this in a systematic way, numerous academic and military studies and analyses in this field are divided into six broad categories: literature on conventional threat scenarios in the Baltic region; studies on nuclear escalation scenarios; publications that describe Russian viewpoints in the current confrontation with the West; studies that discuss security policy and security perceptions of the Baltic countries and the national security models of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; studies on anti-access and area denial; and articles that analyse the dilemmas and challenges in association with understanding the essence of deterrence in the context of modern hybrid warfare and the build-up of a viable deterrence model in the Baltic region. In total, about 40 publications from the period between 2014 and 2019 are represented in this article. While some studies are already well known, others have undeservedly remained somewhat overlooked. This article attempts to correct this by highlighting and comparing the results of the most interesting and intriguing studies in this field. Through this, the author strived to maintain a balance between studies conducted both by military experts and by academics.

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Hybrid Warfare in the Baltics: Threats and Potential Responses

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

The risks of NATO’s maladaptation

The risks of NATO’s maladaptation

What Has Nonviolence Got To Do With The EU?

Researching Baltic security challenges after the annexation of Crimea

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