Resilience and the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Countries From Theoret
Resilience has emerged as a key concept in EU foreign policy. The policy debate around this concept has been vigorous, but theoretical attempts to develop the concept are few. Covering fields of strategical importance, such as economic governance; g
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Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries From Theoretical Concepts to a Normative Agenda
Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries
Gilles Rouet • Gabriela Carmen Pascariu Editors
Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries From Theoretical Concepts to a Normative Agenda
Editors Gilles Rouet LAREQUOI, ISM-IAE of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines Paris-Saclay University Guyancourt, France
Gabriela Carmen Pascariu Centre for Research in International Economic Relations and European Studies Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi Iasi, Romania
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Foreword
Resilience is one of those words, and concepts that has had a meteoric rise in policy and academic debates in recent years. The driving force of that rise was the EU Global Strategy, which identified resilience as a major foreign policy goal of EU foreign policy. The concept itself is mentioned over 30 times in the EU Global Strategy, which is quite extraordinary. The term is a response to Europe’s self-perception of its changing place in global and regional security. And that is not a change for the better. If the EU’s Security Strategy of 2003 was fundamentally optimistic about the EU itself, and its ability to have a positive impact on world affairs, the EU Global Strategy of 2016 is not. There is almost a paradox in that. While the title of the guiding document of EU foreign policy in 2003 was a ‘security
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