1st Edition

Emerging Varieties of Resilience Experiences from Germany, Poland and Ukraine

Edited By Maciej Stępka, Agata Mazurkiewicz, Marco Krüger Copyright 2026
180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on developments of resilience in Europe, discussing its different interpretations and enactments, as well as approaches to national security and crisis and disaster management. Examining war-time resilience, increased refugee flows into the EU, societal resilience, and its general application of the concept in national security strategies, the book juxtaposes the multifaceted... Read more

1 Introducing resilience

Maciej Stępka, Agata Mazurkiewicz, and Marco Krüger

2 Approaching resilience: The rise of resilience in the German civil protection system

Marco Krüger

3 Societal resilience in Germany: Conceptual and empirical reflections for dealing with crises and disasters

Cordula Dittmer and Martin Voss

4 Polish trajectories of resilience: Exploring discourses on security and crisis response

Agata Mazurkiewicz

5 Resilience in the Polish strategic discourse and practice: The use of the Polish territorial forces during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maciej Stępka and Agata Mazurkiewicz

6 Resilience and self-organisation of the Polish migration governance system: Experiences from the first months of the “Ukrainian refugee crisis” of 2022

Maciej Stępka

7 The Ukrainian approach to ensuring national resilience: Experience proven in peace and wartime

Olga Reznikova

8 Foreign trade resilience during wartime

Ivan Us

9 Conclusion: Old and new paths of resilience

Agata Mazurkiewicz, Marco Krüger, and Maciej Stępka

Biography

Maciej Stępka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland.

Agata Mazurkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland.

Marco Krüger is Senior Researcher at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

“Resilience is now a ubiquitous concept in both academic and political circles. This collection offers a timely and rigorous examination of how the concept has been adopted and adapted, extended and transfigured via its application to a range of emerging crises within Central and Eastern Europe. Exploring the distinctive national approaches and contrasting security paradigms through which resilience is now being articulated provides a rich and important account of the evolution of resilience thinking as an evolving, context-dependent practice.”
Chris Zebrowski, Loughborough University, UK

Emerging Varieties of Resilience does not take resilience as a given. Instead, it gives us “resilience multiple” – highlighting the many roles that states and societies play in adapting to crises. In a dialogue between case studies and conceptual discussions this book takes us to new geographies – Germany, Poland and the Ukraine - with insights that are both topical and urgent.”

Mareile Kaufmann, University of Oslo, Norway