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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JOBS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal on Baltic Security</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2382-9230</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2382-9222</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>BDC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10.2478_JOBS-2020-0005</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Euro-Atlantic security before and after COVID-19</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Gvineria</surname>
            <given-names>Shota</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:shota.gvineria@baltdefcol.org">shota.gvineria@baltdefcol.org</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JOBS_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JOBS_aff_000">Baltic Defence College, Estonia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>6</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>5</fpage>
      <lpage>21</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>23</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>23</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>19</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>24</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>CC-BY-NC-ND</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Shota Gvineria</copyright-holder>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Contemporary global power competition has turned the world into a hybrid battlefield. In modern battlefield, authoritarian regimes have the strategic advantage of being irresponsible, reckless and aggressive. This advantage is combined with the ability of the authoritarian regimes to find cheap and effective - short of war - solutions for achieving geopolitical objectives. In past decades authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China have been actively applying hybrid strategies against the Western dominated rules based international system. Those strategies are being constructed based on identification and utilization of the vulnerabilities of the democratic political systems, institutions and societies. Pandemic crisis caused by unpredictable and unprecedented spread of the mutated new Corona virus, have underlined vulnerabilities and opened up new possibilities for the hybrid warfare. The pandemic influences every power on the global stage, but will COVID-19 be a turning point for the Euro-Atlantic Security environment?</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>hybrid warfare</kwd>
        <kwd>COVID-19</kwd>
        <kwd>security environment</kwd>
        <kwd>Euro-Atlantic security</kwd>
        <kwd>information warfare</kwd>
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