Maritime Coercion and Gray Zone Conflicts
Journal: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Year: 2025

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a broad introduction to issues related to the so-called gray zone conflicts, usually described as the space between peace and war. This is a (relatively) new and increasingly relevant form of warfare in which actors seek to achieve their security objectives, or gain strategic advantage, without resorting to direct use of military force, but by engaging in covert or illegal activities that are below the threshold of armed organised violence and do not esc