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In this chapter it is argued that resilience is a strongly Anglo-Saxon idea which is, nonetheless, gaining influence in other countries, albeit in selected areas. Focusing on its emergence in two different areas of German policy making—national infrastructure protection and overseas disaster and humanitarian intervention—we here compare German understandings of resilience with the more established discourse in the UK and US. Here we will look at differences of emphasis in the German and Anglo-Saxon approaches to infrastructure resilience as well as identifying similarities, particularly in overseas intervention where an Anglo-Saxon approach is more widely accepted by the main actors in the field.
I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Martin Endress, Marie Naumann and Benjamin Rampp and participants at a resilience workshop in Trier. I am grateful for a fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen which allowed me the time to research this in more detail.
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Joseph, J. (2019). The Emergence of Resilience in German Policy Making: An Anglo-Saxon Phenomenon?. In: Rampp, B., Endreß, M., Naumann, M. (eds) Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_8
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