{"id":8494,"date":"2021-07-26T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=8494"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T02:08:05","slug":"learning-in-the-grey-zone-how-democracies-can-meet-the-authoritarian-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/learning-in-the-grey-zone-how-democracies-can-meet-the-authoritarian-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning in the grey zone: how democracies can meet the authoritarian challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/matthew-sussex\/\">MATTHEW SUSSEX<\/a>  |   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovation by authoritarian nations in the \u2018grey zone\u2019 is becoming one of the most serious challenges facing contemporary democracies. It has long been recognised that future conflicts might be won&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/csbaonline.org\/research\/publications\/winning-without-fighting-chinese-and-russian-political-warfare-campaigns-and-how-the-west-can-prevail\" target=\"_blank\">before any shots are fired<\/a>. But knowing that is cold comfort because authoritarian states are&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/report\/new-sino-russian-high-tech-partnership\" target=\"_blank\">continually evolving<\/a>&nbsp;their capacity to develop and deploy offensive tools in their cyber-enabled, information and hybrid warfare arsenals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meeting this challenge requires democratic nations, including Australia, to reconceptualise how they think about strategy: its core purposes, its main instruments and capabilities, and what success or failure looks like. Democracy\u2019s authoritarian rivals\u2014chiefly China and Russia\u2014play by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/book\/moscow-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">different rules<\/a>, have different ideas about vulnerabilities and strengths and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2019\/05\/27\/chinas-long-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">measure outcomes<\/a>&nbsp;in broad holistic rather than tight linear terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy is a long game and democracies must overcome their tendency to view conflict as an end-state with a precipitating cause, rather than an ongoing phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Please click here to read the full \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/learning-in-the-grey-zone-how-democracies-can-meet-the-authoritarian-challenge\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly%20The%20Strategist&amp;utm_content=Weekly%20The%20Strategist+CID_715e8cf632e42411434be16cef0bd62e&amp;utm_source=CampaignMonitor&amp;utm_term=Learning%20in%20the%20grey%20zone%20how%20democracies%20can%20meet%20the%20authoritarian%20challenge\">Learning in the grey zone: How democracies can meet the authoritarian challenge<\/a>\u201d article published at The Strategist, written by Griffith Asia Institute Adjunct Associate Professor Matthew Sussex.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW SUSSEX | Innovation by authoritarian nations in the \u2018grey zone\u2019 is becoming one of the most serious challenges facing contemporary democracies. It has long been recognised that future conflicts might be won&nbsp;before any shots are fired. 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