Understanding of hybrid warfare in Ukraine: to what extent this understanding is shaped by its internal experience?

• Thesis title in Czech: Porozumění hybridní válce na Ukrajině: význam domácí zkušenosti
• Thesis title in English: Understanding of hybrid warfare in Ukraine: to what extent this understanding is shaped by its internal experience?
• Key words: Hybrid warfare in Ukraine, poststructuralist discourse analysis
• English key words: Hybrid warfare in Ukraine, poststructuralist discourse analysis
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2017/2018
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Security Studies (23-KBS)
• Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 09.07.2018
• Date of assignment: 09.07.2018
• Date and time of defence: 12.09.2019 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 31.07.2019
• Date of proceeded defence: 12.09.2019
• Opponents: Mgr. Martin Laryš, Ph.D.

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Preliminary scope of work in English

Hybrid warfare has achieved notoriety of being a buzzword attempting to explain the changes in the modern warfare that blur the lines between war and peace, conventional and irregular warfare. Despite its definitional shortcomings, it made its way into the official discourse of the politicians commenting on the conflict in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in it, which did not add clarity. This thesis aims to bring a Ukrainian perspective to the discussion, and it attempts to provide a deep interpretation of sufficiently documented discursive patterns surrounding the actions of Russia in Ukraine since the annexation of Crimea, concentrating on the introduction and the use of the terminology of hybrid warfare in the official security discourse of Ukraine with the external audiences. For the purpose of this analysis I extracted speeches of the Ukrainian officials, with a particular attention attributed to the speeches of Petro Poroshenko, who was the president of Ukraine through the time covered. The methodological framework utilised is poststructuralist discourse analysis.