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; growth and sustainable development; energy, environment and climate action; education, the labour market, and foreign affairs, this book is one of the first attempts to profoundly theorise the concept of 'resilience' in international relations by looking at several policy areas and countries. Faced with multiple crises (the economic crisis, the Brexit referendum, the refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, geopolitics such as events in the Ukraine), and challenges with its integration process, the European Union needs to become not only more intelligent, more inclusive and more sustainable, but also more resilient and more capable of reacting to different internal and external shocks. This book integrates a systemic assessment of the regions' specific shocks and risks in relation to internal vulnerabilities (i.e. structural economic, social, institutional and political fragility) and to their long and medium-term impact on the stability, security and sustainable development in the region.

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Gilles Rouet is Professor and Head of Institut Supérieur de Management, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE), University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Professor of International Relations, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, and Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair. He is co-director of several editorial series, has published a dozen of books, more than two hundred articles and papers and has directed more than fifty collective works, in particular about the European Union, the Citizenships and European Identities, the Bologna Process and the Public Management. Gabriela Carmen Pascariu is Full Professor in European Economics and Policies at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. She is Director of the Centre for European Studies, Jean Monnet professor and Team Europe expert having more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in the field. She is currently an expert in various national and international committees, Editor in Chief of the Eastern Journal of European Studies and member of the editorial board of other several publications in European Studies and Regional Development.

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Part I: The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Context1. Introduction: Resilience and the Eastern PartnershipWhat Relevance for Policies?- Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Gilles Rouet2. Increasingly Geopolitical: EU's Eastern Neighbourhood in the Age of Multiple Crises- Cristian Nitoiu3.Public Administration and Governance in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Comparative Approach and Relevance for the European Neighbourhood Policy Effectiveness- Mihaela Onofrei and Florin Oprea4. The Economic Dynamics of the Eastern Partnership Countries: Between Development Gaps and Internal Fragilities- Oana-Ramona Socoliuc and Liviu-George MahaPart II. The EU's Actorness and Eastern Neighbourhood Challenges5. (In)securitising the Eastern Neighbourhood. The European Union Eastern Partnership's Normative Dilemma: Resilience Versus Principled Pragmatism- Grzegorz Poarlik6. The EU's Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood- Teodor Lucian Moga and Lucian-Dumitru Dîrdal7. Resilience of the EU and Leverage of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Good News and Bad News- Michael Bolle8. Geostrategic Interests of the EU and Their Implementation on the Example of the Ukrainian Crisis- Ivana Slobodnikova, Peter Terem and Radovan Gura9. Measuring Hierarchy in the European Union and Eastern Partnership Countries- Yuval Weber10. Organisations and Resilience: What Relevance for the Eastern Partnership?- Thierry Côme and Gilles RouetPart III. Eastern Neighbourhood Countries' Resilience. Case Studies and Prospects11. Current Methodological Approaches in Economic Resilience Analysis. Empirical Findings in the EaP Countries- Carmen Pintilescu and Daniela Vioric12. Borderlines: Economic Resilience on the European Union's Eastern Periphery- Adrian Healy and Gillian Bristow13. Resilience at the EU's Eastern Borders: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Countries Through an Institutional Approach- Ramona ignau and Loredana Simionov14. The Eastern Partnership and the Idea of Europeanisation Challenged in the Age of Hybrid Challenges- Sergiy Gerasymchuk15. Whose Resilience? Resilience and Regime Strength in EU-Azerbaijan Relations- Eske Van Gils16.Migration and Resilience in the Eastern European Neighbourhood: Remittances as a Mechanism for Boosting Recovery After Shocks- Cristian Incaltarau and Gabriela Pascariu17. Adaptation, Marketisation or Resilience? Multiculturalism in Local Practices at the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland- Dariusz Wojciech Wojakowski18. General Conclusions- Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Gilles Rouet