ABSTRACT
Resilience has become central to how the Nordic countries perceive security. This comes with a range of political implications. Traditionally, the Nordic societies have understood threats as exceptional situations to be dealt with in order to survive and return to normal politics. Today, the Nordic countries have come to expect disaster and focus has shifted to how societies organise in order to be able to ‘bounce back’ or adapt to the inevitable catastrophe. In this chapter, we analyse the discourse on resilience in three Nordic countries, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and ask whether and how the political practices on resilience have ceded the idea of political strategic planning on security. Have we, the chapter asks, given in to the idea of security as incremental individualised practices?
