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Nothing here yet. Our first pieces in this category are in the works.
Not ours, but essential: recent reporting on hybrid warfare in Europe, and the research on how people and communities actually behave in a crisis.
Academic studies, grouped by question. Some sit behind a paywall; "Find it" searches Google Scholar, which often turns up a free copy.
How strangers on 7/7 came to feel they were in it together.
Twelve recommendations for authorities on working with the public.
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The most-cited definition of community resilience.
Why the same shock hits different places differently.
Ties between neighbours matter more than infrastructure in recovery.
In the 1995 Chicago heat wave, isolation decided who died as much as the heat did.
Safety, calm, connection, self-efficacy and hope.
Surveys in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, including the Baltics.
Evidence that “pre-bunking” works.
Patrik Oksanen, Minna Ålander, Karen-Anna Eggen et al.
Stockholm Free World Forum
Read ↗Karen-Anna Eggen and Siri Strand
Internasjonal Politikk
Read ↗Martin Laine, Marta Vunš and Ilya Lozovsky
OCCRP
Read ↗Readable, well-sourced books on the subjects the show covers, for anyone who wants to go deeper than an episode can.
Mark Galeotti · 2022
How migration, energy, crime, law and information became tools of conflict. The book behind much of Episode 1.
Elisabeth Braw · 2022
How democracies can respond to grey-zone aggression, and why business and citizens are in the front line.
David Kilcullen · 2020
How Russia, China and armed groups learned to fight the West below the threshold of war.
Jonsson & Käihkö (eds.) · 2025
An edited volume on warfare waged by non-military means, and why it defines conflict today. Published by Routledge.
Thomas Rid · 2020
A century of disinformation and political warfare, from the Cold War to social media.
Peter Pomerantsev · 2019
A personal, reported journey through the information war.
Sander van der Linden · 2023
The science of why misinformation spreads and how to "pre-bunk" it.
Andy Greenberg · 2019
The Russian hacking unit that turned off Ukraine's power and released NotPetya.
Nicole Perlroth · 2021
The global market in cyber weapons.
Ted Koppel · 2015
What a cyberattack on the power grid would mean for ordinary households.
Amanda Ripley · 2008
What actually happens in people's heads during a disaster, and who survives.
Rebecca Solnit · 2009
Why ordinary people usually help each other in disasters, rather than panic.
Daniel P. Aldrich · 2012
The research showing that neighbours and social ties matter most in recovery.
Eric Klinenberg · 2018
How libraries, parks and shared spaces hold communities together.
Barbara Demick · 1996; updated 2012
One Sarajevo street through the siege. Companion reading for our Sarajevo episode.
Annie Jacobsen · 2024
A minute-by-minute account of how a nuclear exchange would unfold, and why preparedness and diplomacy matter.
Good listening from other shows on the subjects we cover.
From Mildly Alarmed
Security researchers from Norway and Sweden discuss how Russia's hybrid warfare in Europe works, and how Europe might defend against it. Several reports in our reading list are mentioned in this episode.
Open in Spotify ↗From What Just Happened? (Sibylline)
Analysts unpack the arrests near RAF Fairford, why the UK, Germany and Poland face different levels of Russian grey-zone activity, and why attribution is so hard.
Open in Spotify ↗From What Just Happened? (Sibylline)
After the attack on a Polish Starlink ground station, a discussion of Russia's increasingly reckless hybrid campaign and the risk of unintended civilian deaths.
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