No. 142: Resilience in Security Policy: Present and Future

Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Tim Prior
Editor(s): Christian Nünlist
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 142
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2013

The concept of resilience enjoys increasing popularity among security policy practitioners. It shifts the focus of security policy considerations from avoiding catastrophic events to mitigating their effects. There are great differences in the way it is applied practically worldwide. In preparing the Swiss Security Policy Report 2014, the question of whether the concept should also be anchored more strongly and broadly in Swiss security policy deserves critical consideration.

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