Hybrid threats and the “new” total defence
Year: 2024

In recent years, and especially since the onset of war in Ukraine, the concept of “total defence” has re-emerged in the Nordic and Baltic Sea regions. Other countries and defence organisations are looking to this development as one potential response to “hybrid” threats. Focusing on the Swedish case, this chapter investigates how state institutions define emerging threats, and how such understandings are related to the need to develop and to mobilise support for, and engagement in, total defence