Global Britain in the grey zone: between stagecraft and statecraft

Rauta, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-8680 and Monaghan, S. (2021) Global Britain in the grey zone: between stagecraft and statecraft. Contemporary Security Policy, 42 (4). pp. 475-497. ISSN 1352-3260 doi: 10.1080/13523260.2021.1980984

Abstract/Summary

The United Kingdom’s integrated defense and security review put “grey zone” or “hybrid” challenges at the center of national security and defense strategy. The United Kingdom is not alone: The security and defense policies of NATO, the European Union, and several other countries (including the United States, France, Germany, and Australia) have taken a hybrid-turn in recent years. This article attempts to move the hybrid debate toward more fertile ground for international policymakers and scholars by advocating a simple distinction between threats and warfare. The United Kingdom’s attempts to grapple with its own hybrid policy offer a national case study in closing the gap between rhetoric and practice, or stagecraft and statecraft, before an avenue of moving forward is proposed—informally, through a series of questions, puzzles, and lessons from the British experience—to help international policy and research communities align their efforts to address their own stagecraft-statecraft dichotomies.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/100476
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/13523260.2021.1980984
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
Publisher	Routledge
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