Emerging Varieties of Resilience

Maciej Stępka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland.Agata Mazurkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland.Marco Krüger is Senior Researcher at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

• 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