dishonest processes that, both by act and omission, contribute to the demoralization of the individual and of all kinds of public and private organizations by benefitting these through regulatory protection based on the abuse of authority, conventions, legal vacuums, impunity, etc.
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Lawfare or the War Behind the Curtains: An Analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Fernando Casado Gutiérrez (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador), Fernando Oliván López (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), and Arturo Luque González (Universidad Tecnica de Manabí, Ecuador)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6741-1.ch013
Abstract
This study provides a general framework of the processes of lawfare from a critical and propositional perspective. The concept deployed here derives from previous international studies that relate it to the war between East and West as manifested in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, taking into account its etymology and academic scope within Anglo-Saxon and European contexts. Lawfare processes, in addition to being a weapon to wear down an opponent, also involve the manipulation of public opinion by relying on the mass media, social networks, and supranational organizations to serve specific interests. The analysis presented here shows that this polysemic term can take numerous and sometimes ambiguous forms that inadvertently become interwoven. Clearly, since wider society is not privy to lawfare processes, they often go undetected, and there is a lack of preparedness, such as effective tools, to deal with them and provide redress.