International Humanitarian Law and Hybrid Warfare

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-05717-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflict

This groundbreaking monograph offers a comprehensive legal and conceptual analysis of hybrid warfare and hybrid threats—two evolving challenges that blur the boundaries between war and peace. Drawing from international law, political science, and security studies, the book explores how states and non-state actors exploit legal, informational, and cyber tools to undermine adversaries without crossing the threshold of conventional warfare. With in-depth case studies and a critical review of doctrines from NATO, the EU, China, and Russia, the author maps the conceptual thresholds that distinguish hybrid threats from hybrid warfare. The book introduces “hybrid legality” as a framework to understand how international humanitarian law, human rights law, and sovereignty norms are manipulated in modern conflicts. Emphasizing the risks of conceptual ambiguity, it warns against the overuse of terms like “hybrid war” and “hybrid attack,” which may lead to alarm fatigue and legal confusion. Instead, it argues for precision and interdisciplinary insight to confront these threats effectively. With a unique focus on legal thresholds and norms, the volume is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners navigating today’s increasingly multipolar and legally ambiguous security environment.

Chapters 1 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lubi&

Lubinski, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Öffentlicher Dienst Wehrrecht, Soldaten- und Zivildienstrecht, Bundesfreiwilligendienst
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Hybrid threats: Below the threshold of hybrid warfare; 2. Toward a definition of hybrid warfare; 3. Four conceptual views of lawfare; 4. Hybrid warfare terrorism and the principle of distinction; 5. Cyber and information disorder operations; Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Piotr Lubinski lectures at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is also a visiting lecturer for the NATO CIMIC Centre of Excellence, the War Studies University, the Military Centre for Civic Education, the Military Training Centre for Foreign Operations in Kielce, and the Polish Red Cross.