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A Collective Response to Destabilisation: The NATO Centres of Excellence

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This chapter examines how NATO Centres of Excellence1 (COEs) contribute to countering hybrid threats. To date, 24 multinational COEs have been founded by NATO member countries to support the transformation of the Alliance through knowledge exchange and capability development across a large variety of military capabilities such as Civil-Military Cooperation, Cyber Defence and Human Intelligence. Initiated by the reorganisation of NATO’s military command structure following the 2002 Prague Summit, COEs have been continuously growing in numbers and size, in contrast to the drastic reductions of NATO headquarter structures and total number of positions.

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    Hereafter referred to as COEs. Since Centre of Excellence is not a protected name, the organisations in this research only include NATO-accredited COEs.

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Corbe, M. (2018). A Collective Response to Destabilisation: The NATO Centres of Excellence. In: Cusumano, E., Corbe, M. (eds) A Civil-Military Response to Hybrid Threats. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60798-6_5

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