Introduction: Indispensable Resilience
摘要
Since 2017, when preparations began for the collective work published in 2019, Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: From Theoretical Concepts to a Normative Agenda, major crises have very profoundly disrupted the daily lives of Europeans, accelerating the implementation of policies based in part on resilience as a guiding principle. Chandler rightly writes that “while definitions of resilience have their limitations, the development of resilience and its rapid spread throughout the policy world over the last two decades, importantly highlights a desire to use systems theories and process understandings to develop a range of adaptive approaches” (2019, 304).