Geopolitics, Political Topology and Hybrid Warfare

• Authors: Benon Zb. Szałek

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the concept of political topology in the light of geopolitics and hybrid warfare. Traditional geopolitics can be regarded as a point of departure for the search for better tools for political decision making. Comparison and confrontation of different, theoretical and practical, concepts of hybrid warfare can be heuristically inspiring and lead to a compact system of politically relevant knowledge – to political topology.

Keywords

EN

geopolitics; political topology; hybrid warfare

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 86-97

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Benon Zb. Szałek

• University of Szczecin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201507

Biblioteka Nauki

2031554