United in Ambiguity? EU and NATO Approaches to Hybrid Warfare and Hybrid Threats. EU Diplomacy Paper 05/2017
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2017

‘Hybrid warfare’, sometimes known as ‘hybrid threats’, became a trendy buzzword in recent years, used to describe a panoply of seemingly different threats. While neither the European Union (EU) nor the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) appear to have a clear definition of this term, both organisations are taking steps to ‘counter hybrid’. This paper explores why this terminology has been adopted by both organisations and seeks to understand how this semantic choice influenced their respe