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This book explores the concept and practice of resilience that has
generated much debate among both scholars and practitioners. The
contributions propose a new understanding of resilience, both as a
quality and a way of thinking, taking it to the level of ‘the
person’ and ‘the local’, to argue that a more sustainable way
to govern the world today is bottom-up and inside-out. While
carrying a seemingly unifying message of self-reliance, adaptation
and survival in the face of adversity, resilience curiously
continues to appear as ‘all things to all people’, making it
hard for the EU and international institutions to make full use of
its arresting potential. Engendering resilience today, in the
highly volatile and uncertain world hit by crises, pandemic and
diminishing control, becomes a priority as never before. This book
develops a more comprehensive view of resilience by looking at it
both as a quality of the system and a way of thinking inherent to
‘the local’ that cannot be engineered from the outside. It is
argued in this volume that in some cases the level of ‘the
person’, especially the person’s sense of what constitutes a
‘good life’, may be the most appropriate focus for
understanding change and strategic adaptation in response to it.
This understanding widens the scope of discussion from what makes
an entity, system or person more adaptable, to how one can best
govern today to establish a stable equilibrium between the global
and the local, the external and the internal, and become more
responsive to the challenges and changes of today’s highly
uncertain world. The chapters in this book were originally
published in the journal Contemporary Security Policy.
This book explores the concept and practice of resilience that has
generated much debate among both scholars and practitioners. The
contributions propose a new understanding of resilience, both as a
quality and a way of thinking, taking it to the level of 'the
person' and 'the local', to argue that a more sustainable way to
govern the world today is bottom-up and inside-out. While carrying
a seemingly unifying message of self-reliance, adaptation and
survival in the face of adversity, resilience curiously continues
to appear as 'all things to all people', making it hard for the EU
and international institutions to make full use of its arresting
potential. Engendering resilience today, in the highly volatile and
uncertain world hit by crises, pandemic and diminishing control,
becomes a priority as never before. This book develops a more
comprehensive view of resilience by looking at it both as a quality
of the system and a way of thinking inherent to 'the local' that
cannot be engineered from the outside. It is argued in this volume
that in some cases the level of 'the person', especially the
person's sense of what constitutes a 'good life', may be the most
appropriate focus for understanding change and strategic adaptation
in response to it. This understanding widens the scope of
discussion from what makes an entity, system or person more
adaptable, to how one can best govern today to establish a stable
equilibrium between the global and the local, the external and the
internal, and become more responsive to the challenges and changes
of today's highly uncertain world. The chapters in this book were
originally published in the journal Contemporary Security Policy.
From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with
political decision-making by focusing on the process of
implementation that follows important policy decisions. The book
identifies the intentions behind a collection of key policy
decisions for establishing Europe's new security order and
investigates whether the implementation of thos
From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with
political decision-making by focusing on the process of
implementation that follows important policy decisions. The book
identifies the intentions behind a collection of key policy
decisions for establishing Europe's new security order and
investigates whether the implementation of those and subsequent
decisions has resulted in the intended policy outcome.
This book offers a reality check of U.S. global power.The essays in
this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the
September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States,
squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished
American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a
defender of democratic values and human rights. The Bush Doctrine
misguidedly assumed that the United States was a superpower, a
unique unipolar power that could compel others to accede to its
preferences for world order. In reality the United States is a
formidable but besieged global power, one of a handful of nations
that could influence but certainly not dictate world events. The
flawed doctrine has led to failed policies that extend America's
reach beyond its grasp, most painfully evident in the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.Leading scholars and policy analysts from nine
countries assess the impact of the Bush Doctrine on world order,
explain how the United States reached its current low standing
internationally, and propose ways that the country can repair the
untold damage wrought by ill-conceived and incompetently executed
security and foreign policies. The contributors focus on the
principal regions of the world where they have expertise: Asia,
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Russia.The
contributors agree that future security and foreign policies must
be informed by the limitations of U.S. economic, cultural, and
military power to shape world order to reflect American interests
and values. American power and influence will increase only when
the United States binds itself to moral norms, legal strictures,
and political accords in cooperation with other like-minded states
and peoples.
This book asks if it is time to "reboot" the fundamental
institutions of global international society. The volume revisits
Hedley Bull's seminal contribution The Anarchical Society by
exploring the interconnected nature of change, contestation and
resilience for maintaining order in today's uncertain and complex
environment. The volume adds to Bull's theorizing by recognizing
that order demands change, that contestation should be welcomed,
and that resilience is anchored in local and agent-led forms of
ordering. The contributors to Part One of the book focus on
theoretical and conceptual issues related to order in the global
international society, whilst the contributors to Part Two of the
book focus on the primary institutions as listed by Hedley Bull
with the addition of a chapter on the market adding a distinctive
commentary on new and important dynamics of change, contestation
and resilience of the existing institutions.
This book offers a reality check of U.S. global power.The essays in
this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the
September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States,
squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished
American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a
defender of democratic values and human rights. The Bush Doctrine
misguidedly assumed that the United States was a superpower, a
unique unipolar power that could compel others to accede to its
preferences for world order. In reality the United States is a
formidable but besieged global power, one of a handful of nations
that could influence but certainly not dictate world events. The
flawed doctrine has led to failed policies that extend America's
reach beyond its grasp, most painfully evident in the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.Leading scholars and policy analysts from nine
countries assess the impact of the Bush Doctrine on world order,
explain how the United States reached its current low standing
internationally, and propose ways that the country can repair the
untold damage wrought by ill-conceived and incompetently executed
security and foreign policies. The contributors focus on the
principal regions of the world where they have expertise: Asia,
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Russia.The
contributors agree that future security and foreign policies must
be informed by the limitations of U.S. economic, cultural, and
military power to shape world order to reflect American interests
and values. American power and influence will increase only when
the United States binds itself to moral norms, legal strictures,
and political accords in cooperation with other like-minded states
and peoples.
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