title: Hybrid threats as a threat to democracy
abstract: Recent years have seen an increase in the use of hybrid threats from foreign and hostile actors towards democracies. Using a variety of tactics, these threats are detrimental to democracies themselves and put at the forefront of security threats within both NATO and the EU. Focusing on Europe and USA and soft (smart) tactics, this chapter gives an overview of the three most prominent dimensions of democracies: electoral, liberal and deliberative democracy. The three-legged theoretical framework 