Risk, Resilience, and Resistance
Journal: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Year: 2025

This is Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of NATO, edited by James Sperling and Mark Webber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), pp. 192-207. The development of ‘resilience thinking’ in NATO’s post-Cold War discourse and practice raises questions about the compatibility between the logics of security and resilience. The increasing emphasis on resilience performatively enacts NATO’s self-identification as a comprehensive security organization, far beyond its standard military alliance reperto