NATO's Strengthening of Resilience Building:Motivations,Impacts,and Constraints
Since the Ukraine crisis in 2014,resilience has become a key focal point in NATO's overall strategic framework,with its importance being unprecedentedly reinforced.NATO's current resilience-building efforts aim to enhance the alliance's capacity to prevent,resist,and recover from major shocks in military,civilian,and broader societal domains,employing measures based on a"whole-of-alliance,whole-of-government,whole-of-society"approach.This represents NATO's reflection on and response to the changing security environment in Europe in recent years,and also marks its adoption of the"new Cold War"narrative,as a way to construct a shared identity of the alliance.By strengthening resilience,NATO has further activated its dominant role in European defense,reinforced the US-centered transatlantic alliance's resource integration,and pushed great power competition toward"bloc politics"and"pan-securitization."At the same time,the duality and inherent contradictions of NATO's resilience-building efforts make its future uncertain and unpredictable.