The historical intersection of world’s current state of affairs – the renewed “Great Power Competition” – is characterized by a pervasive fluidity traversing all the “domains” of conflict as to produce a competition continuum which blurs traditional distinction lines between war and peace.

In this Colloquium, while providing a snapshot of the torsions that some basic landings of international relations and geopolitics are struggling through the information age, we will discuss the strategic impact that the adversarial effort to “win hearts and minds” have on the battlefield of the existential ‘war for legitimacy” we are engaged into.

Marco R. Provvidera is professor of Geopolitics, International Law of Armed Conflict, Disinformation Warfare, Anticipatory Intelligence, and Military Applications of Emerging Technologies, at the Center of Higher Studies for Defense (CASD), Executive Master of Strategic Leadership & Digital Transformation (Rome, Italy); Scientific Director of the Master in International Security Studies, University of San…