Index for Public Administration Resilience Against Hybrid Threats

geopolitical situation significantly impacts the European Union's raw
materials policy. Hybrid threats are a serious challenge to security
and stability in the world. They are very diverse in terms of actors,
activities, or tools. The relationship between the EU's raw materials
policy and hybrid threats is complex and influenced by a number of
factors. In principle, however, it can be said that due to its
dependence on importing raw materials from third countries, the EU
is more prone to become the object of hybrid threats that these
countries can use to promote their interests. The resistance of the
public administration to hybrid threats is one of the important factors
that can help the EU reduce the risk of threats to raw material policy
by hybrid threats. The aim of the contribution is to create a new
composite index, KAPA, which measures the resistance of public
administration to hybrid threats. The proposed index has five
dimensions – cybersecurity, resistance to disinformation, compliance
with laws and security, protection against corruption, and prevention
of a sovereign debt crisis. When constructing the KAPA index, we
start from the apparatus of fuzzy sets. We have drawn all data from
reputable, publicly available databases. According to the KAPA
index, the countries ranked best are Estonia, Denmark, Finland,
Sweden, and the Netherlands. The worst-ranked countries were
Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Bulgaria, and Croatia. The results confirmed
that fragile states, measured by the Fragile States Index FSI, are also
more vulnerable to hybrid threats and have less resilient public
administration.