Zur aktuellen Debatte um die Resilienzarchitektur der NATO

of conflict become increasingly blurred, pose new challenges to the resilience of NATO and its member states. At the same time climate change and natural disasters such as floods, fires and earthquakes, or biological hazards such as the COVID-19 pandemic equally put national resilience to the test. The essay first looks at the interdisciplinary origins of resilience (I. 2). The text then attempts to situate the unoccupied term in international law (II.). Building on this, the exegesis of the term since 2010 is traced on the basis of NATO summits (III). A conclusion attempts to define the concept of resilience on the basis of current, security-relevant threats to the NATO (IV.). The hypothesis of this text is that Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty provides a flexible and adaptable layered approach to resilience, which preserves the capacity to resist armed attack at the core of NATO's approach while allowing the Alliance to address a wider range of newer challenges to resilience through politically binding, yet legally non-binding commitments and guidelines.