Resilience as the EU Global Strategy’s new leitmotif: pragmatic, problematic or promising?

Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

“…Inspired by the famous environmentalist adage "to act locally and think globally," the EU is increasingly interested in realizing its global ambitions by engaging with bottom-up and local dynamics. For instance, the recently adopted EU Global Strategy (EUGS), puts prime on the concept of resilience, or the ability of states and societies to reform, withstand and recover from internal and external crises (Juncos, 2017;Wagner & Anholt, 2016). Moreover, the EU makes a commitment to "pursue locally owned rights-based approaches" to Security Sector Reform (SSR) (European Union, 2016a, p. 26) and calls for a "bottom-up approach"-or at least to "blend top-down and bottom-up efforts" (European Union, 2016a, p. 31)-to foster local agency.…”

Astrategic Europe

“…The EUGS defines the promotion of ‘state and societal resilience' as the centrepiece of EU neighbourhood policy, with resilience understood as ‘the ability of states and societies to reform, thus withstanding and recovering from internal and external crises' (EU, , p. 23). In practice, however, resilience is so ambiguous and vague a concept that it is open to very different interpretations (Wagner and Anholt, , pp. 417–18), calling into question whether it really amounts to significant change in EU strategy.…”

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“…Одним из новых опорных подходов в Глобальной стратегии становится "устойчивость" (resilience). Под "устойчивостью" понимается способность государств и обществ проводить реформы и, таким образом, противостоять внутреннему и внешнему кризису [Wagner et al, 2016].…”