"This book contains 28 articles on the topic of hybrid warfare and related threats, delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) 'Countering Hybrid Threats: Lessons Learned from Ukraine', held in Bucharest, Romania, in September 2015. This event brought together 50 experts from different fields and perspectives, including policymakers, security and intelligence practitioners, and academics. The presentations explored the nature of the Ukrainian conflict and the dynamic evolution of current security threats in Central and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region with the aim of identifying the key drivers of the conflict and exploring the most efficient instruments and methods for conflict resolution."--Page [4] of cover.

Includes maps of: Invasion of Crimea; Unrecognized Regions; Ukraine: Separtist Regions

Part I. The Challenges of Hybrid Warfare: Multiple Perspectives--Framing NATO's Approach to Hybrid Warfare--Building National Capabilities and Countering and Counseling Hybrid Threats: Lessons Learned--Main Features of the Hybrid Warfare Concept--Countering Hybrid Warfare. The Need for a Comprehensive Approach--Part II. Hybrid War-An Old Concept wtih Extensive Dimension--Reflecting Developments in Hybrid Warfare into Defence Policy--Hybrid Warfare After a Long Term Informational War--Old and New in Hybrid Warfare--Intelligence in Hybrid Warfare--Information in Hybrid Warfare--Information and Hybrid Warfare: Intelligence Challenges, Intelligent Response--Corruption in the Defense Sector: Concepts, Practices and Implications for National Security--Part III. Counteracting Hybrid Threats: Lessons Learned from Ukraine--Military Conflict in the East of Ukraine-Between the Historical Premises and Political Decisions--Battlespace Perspectives of Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine--Hybrid War in Ukraine: What is Next?--Three Lessons ito Massively and Openly Learn from: On Political and Analytical Errors, Deterrence, and Popular Reactiosn--The Ukrainian Hybrid Warfare and Neuroscience-Dismantling Some Facets of the Psychosphere--Crisis in Ukraine: A Platform for the Expansion of "Hyrbid War" or Antoher "Frozen Conflict"--Cyber Threats in Hybrid Warfare: The Ukrainian Case--The Republic of Moldova in the Context of the Ukranian Crisis: Vulnerabilities and Threats--Russian Hybrid Warfare: Not New, Well-Accomplished, and Limited in Scope--NATO's EU's Strategic Defense and Security Review--Part IV. The Ukranian Conflict: Implications for Regional and Euro-Atlantic Security--Conserved Conflict: Russia's Pattern in Ukraine's East--Hybrid War-Effects on Geopolitical Ground--Patterns of Russian Intelligence "Active Measures" in Frozen Conflict Zones--Russian Information War in the Ukranian Conflict--The East Zone Conflict in the Republic of Moldovea-A New Approach--Goals and Methods of the Russian Federation in the Ukranian Crisis--"Trans Dniester Moldovan Republic" and teh Separtist Regime as an Integrated Threat to the Regional Peace and Security--Black Sea, "Cold Sea": THe Geopolitical Crossroad of Civilizations--Nation's Right to Self-Determination in the Context of Regional Crises Between the Autonomy and Separatism--Subject Index--Author Index