Emerging Varieties of Resilience: Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine [Hardcover]

1. Introducing Resilience??2. Approaching Resilience: The rise of resilience in the German civil protection system??3. Societal Resilience in Germany: Conceptual and Empirical Reflections for Dealing with Crises and Disasters??4. Polish Trajectories of Resilience: Exploring Discourses on Security and Crisis Response??5. Resilience in the Polish Strategic Discourse and Practice: The use of the Polish Territorial Forces during the COVID-19 pandemic??6. Resilience and Self-organisation of the Polish Migration Governance System: Experiences from the First Months of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis of 2022??7. The Ukrainian Approach to Ensuring National Resilience: Experience Proven in Peace and Wartime??8. Foreign Trade Resilience During Wartime??9. Conclusion: Old and New Paths of Resilience

Resilience is now a ubiquitous concept in both academic and political circles. This collection offers a timely and rigorous examination of how the concept has been adopted and adapted, extended and transfigured via its application to a range of emerging crises within Central and Eastern Europe. Exploring the distinctive national approaches and contrasting security paradigms through which resilience is now being articulated provides a rich and important account of the evolution of resilience thinking as an evolving, context-dependent practice.
Chris Zebrowski, Loughborough University, UK

Emerging Varieties of Resilience does not take resilience as a given. Instead, it gives us resilience multiple  highlighting the many roles that states and societies play in adapting to crises. In a dialogue between case studies and conceptual discussions this book takes us to new geographies  Germany, Poland and the Ukraine - with insights that are both topical and urgent.

Mareile Kaufmann, University of Oslo, Norway&llÃ.