On Resilience by Philippe Bourbeau HARDBACK 9781108425230

On Resilience\nby Philippe Bourbeau\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Philippe Bourbeau\nTitle: On Resilience\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: International relations\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781108425230\nISBN-10: 1108425232\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhat does it mean to be resilient in a societal or in an international context? Where does resilience come from? From which discipline was it ''imported'' into international relations (IR)? If a particular government employs the meaning of resilience to its own benefit, should scholars reject the analytical purchase of the concept of resilience as a whole? Does a government have the monopoly of understanding how resilience is defined and applied? This book addresses these que.