“…In contrast, the idea of defense, and in fact pre‐emption or preparedness, requires the singling out of a very particular threat (that is, requires the suspending of uncertainty). The concept of resilience has a pre‐history to its recruitment to security politics, making its way through academic disciplines such as engineering, ecology, computing, psychology, and economics, referring in various ways to the capacity of an entity or system to withstand shocks, recover, adapt, or in some cases learn, evolve, or move to a new systemic equilibrium while maintaining basic functions (Bodin and Wiman ; Walker, Holling, Carpenter and Kinzig ; Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche and Pfefferbaum ; Boin, Comfort and Demchak ; Rogers ). But relatively recently, it has entered security policy discourse in various ways, including in national security policy (US Department Of Homeland Security ; HM Government ), disaster‐preparedness, critical infrastructure policy (Thomas and Kerner ; Lundborg and Vaughan‐Williams ; O'Malley ), and with international organizations aiming to manage “global risks” such as climate change and financial instability (UN ; WEF ).…”