Connections: The Quarterly Journal

Connections: The Quarterly Journal is the flagship publication of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes

Connections vol. 24, no. 4, Fall 2025, International Approaches to Deterrence

Conflict

Hybrid Operations Below the Threshold of War: Target Systems, Campaign Logic, and Vectors of Influence

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no. 1

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25.053_Hybrid_Campaigns_preview.pdf

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Where Institutions Intersect: Analyzing Governance Seams in Hybrid Attacks on Critical Maritime Infrastructure

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25.048_Maritime_Seams_preview.pdf

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Unorthodox Warfare: The Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin’s Hybrid Warfare in the Sahel

Borislav Bankov

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25.046_ROC_preview.pdf

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Russia's Shadow in the Global South: Deterrence and Influence in Southeast Asia

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133-152

24.3.22_Southeast_Asia.pdf

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Increasing Moldova’s Deterrence Potential: Integrating National and Societal Resilience in Combating Russian Disinformation and Manipulation

Vitalie Armașu

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111-131

24.3.32_Moldova.pdf

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Integrated Border Management as a Potential Deterrence Measure at the North-Eastern Flank of NATO and the Schengen Area

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89-109

24.3.63_Border_Management.pdf

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Deterring Hybrid Warfare: NATO Approaches to Russian Sabotage

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70-88

24.3.27_Sabotage.pdf

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Rebuilding NATO's Conventional Deterrence: Lessons from the Cold War for Contemporary Russian Threats

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55-69

24.3.39_Deterrence.pdf

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Deterrence by Fear Inducement: Russia's Nuclear Rhetoric and the War in Ukraine

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37-54

24.3.30_Fear_0.pdf

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Know the Enemy: Understanding Russia's Global Political End-State

Gintaras Bagdonas

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17-36

24.3.23_Russia_End-State.pdf

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