On Resilience: Genealogy, Logics, and World Politics
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| Anteprima |
What
does it mean to be resilient in a societal or in an international
context? Where does resilience come from? From which discipline was it
'imported' into international relations (IR)? If a particular government
employs the meaning of resilience to its own benefit, should scholars
reject the analytical purchase of the concept of resilience as a whole?
Does a government have the monopoly of understanding how resilience is
defined and applied? This book addresses these questions. Even though
resilience in global politics is not new, a major shift is currently
happening in how we understand and apply resilience in world politics.
Resilience is indeed increasingly theorised, rather than simply employed
as a noun; it has left the realm of vocabulary and entered the terrain
of concept. This book demonstrates the multiple origins of resilience,
traces the diverse expressions of resilience in IR to various historical
markers, and propose a theory of resilience in world politics.
