| Summary/Abstract |
The authors examine a close connection between the European Union’s
resilience and identity in academic and contemporary political discourse.
In the latter case, the sources of the EU’s resilience have not yet been
identified, but the Russian factor has come as a variable that determines
the connection between resilience and identity in the context of the Russia-
Ukraine clash as a conflict of values. As a non-systemic challenge, Russia’s
special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine has shifted the focus in the
EU’s search for the sources of resilience and made it face the problems of
self-identity in a changed environment. The article argues that the EU’s
collective identity may be a factor of its resilience. It concludes that, given
the European Union’s previous unsuccessful experience of appealing to
collective identity in crisis situations, its use in the face of Russia’s special
military operation will be limited, although it has highlighted the need for
strengthening the EU’s identity.
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