ELEMENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HYBRID WARFARE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A GREAT ROMANIAN DIPLOMAT
ELEMENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HYBRID WARFARE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A GREAT ROMANIAN DIPLOMAT

Summary/Abstract: The article is trying to emphasize the elements and characteristics of the hybrid war in the work of a great Romanian diplomat, Mircea Malița. The volume “Between War and Peace” is a true manual about the study of the wars, enhancing theories, schools of thoughts and strategic visions regarding future conflicts. Beside the interesting ideas and perspectives, the author underlines some elements and characteristics of the modern wars, placing the author among the greatest visionaries of what many scholars named, “hybrid wars”. “Asymmetry”,” “disruptive innovation”, “the gray zone of war and peace”, “ambiguity and attribution” are some of the elements of the hybrid wars encountered in Mircea Malița’s volume. Hybrid warfare takes in consideration informational warfare, including “cognitive warfare”. Marsili (2023) distinguishes two types of “information disruption”: “cognitive disruption”, including disinformation and propaganda and “functional disruption”, referring to cyberspace and electromagnetic attacks. Besides the actuality and the popularity of the concept among the scholars, hybrid war has somehow another connotations in geopolitical discurses. It encompasses and reinforces „the ontological insecurity as a phenomenon”, as Ljungkvist (2024) and what some authors (Eberle and Daniel 2022) named, “the anxiety geopolitics”. Mainly after the Russia’s annexation of Crimeea, hybrid threats, cyberthreats and disinformation campaigns are related to East/ West geopolitical axis and “grey zone war/conflicts have taken centre stage in Western security discourses”. It can be related to the geopolitics of fear, metanarrative used often in critical studies, critical geopolitics or in the analysis of risk and uncertainity.

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