INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF ENSURING NATIONAL RESILIENCE         

1.1.          The Concept of Resilience in National Security: Research Approaches to Determining Its Content, Structural Elements, and Practical Application

1.1.1.        Research Approaches to Forming the Interdisciplinary Resilience Concept       

1.1.2.        The Evolvement of Security Studies  

1.1.3.        Features of Using the Resilience Concept in National Security  

1.2.           National Resilience Ensuring System: Its Essence and Main Characteristics

1.2.1.        The Essence of the National Resilience Ensuring System

1.2.2.        Characteristics of Objects and Actors in the National Resilience Ensuring System     

1.2.3.        System Links in National Resilience  

1.2.4.        Comparative Analysis of the National Security Ensuring System and the National Resilience Ensuring System

1.3.           Theoretical Basis for Assessing and Managing National Resilience

1.3.1.        National Resilience Criteria     

1.3.2.        Resilience Indicators and Levels in National Security     

1.3.3.        Fundamentals of National Resilience Management

1.3.4.        Factors Influencing the Formation of National Resilience

1.3.5.        Key Processes, Principles, and Mechanisms of Ensuring National Resilience

Chapter 2. METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR ENSURING NATIONAL RESILIENCE         

2.1.           Peculiarities of Development and Implementation of State Policy in National Resilience       

2.1.1.        The Role of the State in Providing National Resilience    

2.1.2.        Self-Organization and Self-Governance Potential in Strengthening Resilience 

2.1.3.        Problems of Planning Under Uncertainty    

2.2.           Forming a National Resilience Ensuring Model on the Basis of Systems Approach       

2.2.1.        Peculiarities of Selecting Key Parameters of a National Resilience Ensuring Model 

2.2.2.        Methodological Foundations of Creating Mechanisms to Adaptively Manage National Resilience   

2.2.3.        Defining National Resilience Providing Priorities 

2.3.           Risk and Capability Assessment, Identification of Threats and Vulnerabilities in National Security     

2.3.1.        The Expediency of Establishing a National Risk Assessment System  

2.3.2.        Algorithm for Comprehensive Risk and Capability Assessment and Threat and Vulnerability Identification       

2.3.3.        Basic Methods of Research Used for Risk Assessment    

2.3.4.        Generation of Threat Data Sheets and Registers    

2.3.5.        Institutional Support to National Risk Assessment System

2.4.           Multi-Level Nature of National Resilience Ensuring System     

Chapter 3. WORLD EXPERIENCE OF ENSURING RESILIENCE IN THE SECURITY SPHERE    

3.1.           NATO Goals and Objectives with regard to Building National Resilience     

3.1.1.        NATO’s Response to Changes of Global Security Environment after 2014       

3.1.2.        NATO Basic Requirements for National Resilience        

3.2.           EU Conceptual Approaches to Development of Resilience of the Union and its Member States

3.2.1.        Changes in EU Strategic and Program Documents on Resilience of the Europian Union and its Member States      

3.2.2.        Organization of Civil Defense and Emergency Response System in the EU Member States   

3.3.           Recommendations of UN, OECD, and other International Organizations with regard to Building National Resilience   

3.3.1.        Sustainable Development and Resilience in UN    

3.3.2.        Projects of OECD and other International Organizations in Building National Resilience      

3.4.           Foreign States’ Experience of Providing National Resilience    

3.4.1.        Specifics of Selecting National Resilience Ensuring Model in Different States       

3.4.2.        Peculiarities of National Resilience Ensuring System in Different Countries 

3.4.3.        Comprehensive Approach to National Security and Resilience in New Zealand    

3.4.4.        National Risk Assessment Systems in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and New Zealand

Chapter 4. CURRENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND THE STATUS OF NATIONAL RESILIENCE IN UKRAINE  

4.1.           Key Trends in Ukraine’s Security Environment    

4.2.           Current Status of Providing Resilience in the Sphere of Ukraine’s National Security

4.3.           Systemic Problems with Providing National Resilience in Ukraine in a Changing and Uncertain Security Environment     

4.3.1.        The Problems of Setting National Resilience Ensuring Goals and Objectives in Strategic Documents of Ukraine     

4.3.2.        Terminological Inconsistency in the Sphere of National Resilience in Ukraine    

4.3.3.        Problems in the Sphere of National Resilience Providing Organizational Support    

4.3.4.        Gaps in the System of Risk and Capability Assessment in Ukraine     

4.3.5.        Problems of Ensuring Security and Resilience of Regions and Local Communities in Ukraine        

Chapter 5. NATIONAL RESILIENCE ENSURING SYSTEM ESTABLISHMENT IN PRESENT-DAY UKRAINE   

5.1.           Conceptual Framework of National Resilience Ensuring in Ukraine

5.2.           Organizational and Legal Framework of National Resilience Providing in Ukraine

5.3.           Specifics of Formation and Implementation of State policy in National Resilience in Ukraine      

5.3.1.        Priorities of State Policy in National Security and Resilience

5.3.2.        Improvement of Planning in the Sphere of National Security Taking into Account National Resilience Ensuring Goals and Objectives

5.4.           Multi-Level Comprehensive National Risk Assessment System Creation Perspectives   

5.4.1.        Prospective Model for Organization of Comprehensive Multi-Level Risks and Threats to National Security Assessment System of Ukraine      

5.4.2.        Peculiarities of Self-Assessing the Resilience by Government and Local Authorities

5.5            Ways to Provide for the Resilience of Regions and Territorial Communities 

5.5.1.        Introduction of a Potential Model for Organizational Support to Security and Resilience of Regions and Territorial Communities

5.5.2.        Shaping National Policy in Resilience of Regions and Territorial Communities     

CONCLUSIONS 

GLOSSARY       

REFERENCES    

Annexes

Annex 1 Status of Key Strategic Indicators under the Sustainable Development Strategy “Ukraine - 2020”     

Annex 2 The National Threat and Emergency Response Systems of Ukraine Based on the Interagency Cooperation    

Annex 3 Self-Assessment Survey for Executive Authorities on Resilience

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