Resilience in the EU's foreign and security policy
The migratory pressure with which the European Union is struggling is yet more evidence that distance or the natural borders inherent in seas, mountains and deserts are of little significance when people are confronted with challenges like conflict, fragility or failure of governance. The scale of conflicts, natural hazards, water shortages and state collapse suggests that things will only get worse – unless a new policy paradigm is effectively implemented. Resilience – understood as the capacity of different layers of society to withstand, to adapt to, and to recover quickly from stresses and shocks – has gradually emerged as an answer to the growing complexity of the international security environment. In the EU context, the concept of resilience combines different policy areas: humanitarian aid, development assistance, disaster-risk reduction, climate-change adaptation, conflict prevention and peacebuilding. As a relatively new addition to EU jargon, the aim of building societal resilience still needs to be translated into tangible, practicable measures. This briefing complements an earlier briefing, Risk and resilience in foreign policy, published in September 2015.
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- adaptação às alterações climáticas
- ajuda ao desenvolvimento
- ajuda aos refugiados
- ajuda humanitária
- AMBIENTE
- CIÊNCIAS
- ciências humanas
- construção europeia
- contabilidade nacional
- ECONOMIA
- financiamento da UE
- finanças da União Europeia
- GEOGRAFIA
- geografia económica
- geopolítica
- independência alimentar
- migrações
- papel internacional da UE
- países terceiros mediterrânicos
- pobreza
- política ambiental
- política de cooperação
- Política Externa e de Segurança Comum
- política internacional
- política migratória da UE
- prevenção de conflitos
- prevenção de riscos ambientais
- QUESTÕES SOCIAIS
- RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS
- segurança europeia
- segurança internacional
- UNIÃO EUROPEIA