Cold Hybrid Warfare: Science Diplomacy as Superpowers’ Geopolitical Statecraft in the Cold War Transatlantic Security Architecture and the Reimagination of World Order
Cold Hybrid Warfare: Science Diplomacy as Superpowers’ Geopolitical Statecraft in the Cold War Transatlantic Security Architecture and the Reimagination of World Order

Summary/Abstract: Refuting the conventional view of science diplomacy as Track II diplomacy while highlighting the Cold War as a structure wherein the superpowers initiated a geopolitical approach to science diplomacy, the article coins the term “cold hybrid warfare” to scrutinize how science diplomacy could serve as a covert strategic asset to advance an unpublicized grand strategy in redefining cross-regional security architecture for global hegemony. By focusing on how the United States and the Soviet Union had deployed the collaborative troika of science, technology, and culture for diplomacy to ace each other out of the world order, the findings further suggest that the globalization of regions eventually emerged as the consequence of the superpowers’ commitment to a greater transregional connectivity within their respective defense perimeter, marking the paradigm shift from the bipolar order to the multipolar one.

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