As a military alliance, NATO has agreed seven baseline requirements for national resilience against which preparedness can be measured; however, these are narrow and are oriented towards enabling and facilitating successful military defence. Even so, whatever the field of study, resilience has a shared set of characteristics making it even more useful in the context of hybrid threats to a modern society.

In addition to tracking the concept’s definitional history and its migration across various fields, this analysis highlights instrumentalisation of resilience for mitigating security threats, especially in the discourse on NATO deterrence and defence.

Full version of the analysis can be found here.