Military resilience – a determining factor in the capacity for economic resilience

Abstract

In the nowadays globalization context, the developing of the resilience concept became almost a necessity, especially from the systemic approach. As the last decades brought an increasing number of shocks and crises all over the world, with various intensities, opened new perspectives in developing more and more proactive approaches regarding future such events. The aim of the paper is to investigate if the military resilience may be one of the possible drivers of the economic resilience. In this context, the military resilience, highly interconnected with the political dimension, should be integrated in a single, broader concept. Further on, we evaluated the main characteristics of two groups containing states, similar in term of economic resilience, taking into consideration relevant indicators for political and military resilience, between 1994 and 2018, in order to identify common behavior during the 2008-2009 economic crisis. After we completed the comparative analysis of the performance of the two groups of states, we concluded that there are relevant premises to conduct deeper research regarding the role of political military resilience in consolidation of the economic resilience capacity. JEL: F50, H56, G01.