Conceptual Quality in Security and Defence Practice: The Case of Hybrid Warfare
Journal: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
Year: 2025

It has become a norm to bemoan the unending stream of new concepts in defence policy, many of which sparked a lively debate on their actual novelty, utility and, more generally, added value. Those discussions often lack a shared language or benchmarks. The paper argues that the analytical utility of concepts for practical policy in areas of defence and security is fundamentally based on the same qualities that make concepts suitable for academic research, and that scholarly criteria for conceptu