TRANSFORMING THE RESILIENCE DISCOURSE IN EU COUNTRIES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2524-2679-2025-02-269-286Keywords:
resilience discourse, EU, NATO, security transformation, Ukraine, cross-sectoral governanceAbstract
This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the transformation of the resilience discourse in EU and NATO policies over the past twenty-five years. Particular attention is paid to the conceptual origins of resilience in humanitarian and environmental thought, as well as to its institutionalization in EU and NATO strategies from the 2000s to the present. The study integrates discursive, comparative, and multi-level approaches to trace how resilience has evolved into a new form of anti-crisis action under conditions of permanent crisis. Special emphasis is placed on the Ukrainian experimental case as a con- text in which local experience intersects with global discursive trends. Based on the analysis of strategic documents and discursive cases, the paper argues that changes in the discourse of resilience influence contemporary governance practices, the structure of the social contract, and models of cross-sectoral co- operation in the security domain.
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