title: Hybrid threats and the power of identity
abstract: This chapter emphasizes the importance of identity in population as a common system of values, beliefs, and principles binding the population together as a nation. In this chapter, we elaborate on hybrid threat instruments serving to undermine such values. A comparative study of Croatia and Ukraine is presented. Since the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the establishment of pro-Russian quasi-states in Southeastern Ukraine in the spring of 2014, the question has arisen as to how similar these 