Rising from the margins of EU aid documents, resilience became a centrepiece of the 2016 EU Global Security Strategy, especially in relation to the neighbourhood. While new resilience-thinking may signify another paradigmatic shift in EU modus operandi , the question that emerges is whether it is critical enough to render EU governance a new turn, to make it sustainable? This article argues that in order for resilience-framed governance to become more effective, the EU needs not just engage with ‘the local’ by way of externally enabling their communal capacity. More crucially, the EU needs to understand resilience for what it is —a self-governing project—to allow ‘the local’ an opportunity to grow their own critical infrastructures and collective agency, in their pursuit of ‘good life’. Is the EU ready for this new thinking, and not just rhetorically or even methodologically when creating new instruments and subjectivities? The bigger question is whether the EU is prepared to critically turn the corner of its neoliberal agenda to accommodate emergent collective rationalities of self-governance as a key to make its peace-building project more successful.

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范式还是批判性？韧性是欧盟治理邻国的新转折

从欧盟援助文件的边缘崛起，韧性成为 2016 年欧盟全球安全战略的核心，尤其是与周边地区相关的内容。虽然新的弹性思维可能意味着欧盟运作方式的另一个范式转变，但出现的问题是，它是否足够关键，使欧盟治理出现新的转变，使其可持续？本文认为，为了使弹性框架治理变得更加有效，欧盟不仅需要通过外部支持他们的公共能力来与“地方”接触。更重要的是，欧盟需要了解弹性是什么——一个自治项目——让“当地”有机会发展自己的关键基础设施和集体机构，以追求“美好生活”。欧盟准备好接受这种新思维了吗？在创造新的工具和主观性时，不仅仅是在修辞上，甚至在方法上？更大的问题是，欧盟是否准备批判性地扭转其新自由主义议程的角落，以适应新兴的集体自治理性，作为使其和平建设项目更加成功的关键。