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[2023]
In international relations, nation-states are normally either at peace, or they are at war. However, in the current environment of renewed strategic competition among the great powers, peace does not seem very peaceful. Russia, China and others are attacking the interests of NATO members on every continent without resorting to conventional or nuclear war against NATO or any of its members. The traditional, bifurcated, black-and-white distinction between peace and war is clearly inadequate for describing the current situation and the term “gray zone” has emerged to describe the in-between – neither black nor white – strategic environment we find ourselves in.