This Hybrid CoE Paper presents a legal assessment of the instrumentalization of migration by the Government of Belarus against the EU and its Member States in 2021. The paper demonstrates that legal dynamics were at the heart of the incident, enabling Belarus to leverage the flow of migrants to achieve coercive effects. The Belarus migration crisis offers important lessons about responding to similar incidents in the future and illustrates how hostile actors exploit legal asymmetries and vulnerabilities to their strategic advantage.
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Hybrid CoE Paper
Hybrid CoE Paper 17: Instrumentalized migration and the Belarus crisis: Strategies of legal coercion
by Aurel Sari
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A finalized piece of analysis on a topic related to hybrid threats, based on one or several research questions. May be either a conceptual analysis or based on a concrete case study with empirical data.
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