Samorząd jako węzeł odporności. Wielopoziomowa transmisja zagrożeń i odporności w regionalnym kompleksie bezpieczeństwa
Local Government as a Resilience Hub: Multi-Level Transmission of Threats and Resilience in the Regional Security Complex

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the role of local government as a structural node of resilience within a regional security complex, arguing that contemporary hybrid threats operationally materialize at the local level. Its objective is to theoretically integrate selected security paradigms (Regional Security Complex Theory, security community theory, neorealism, securitization theory, and regional security governance) in order to incorporate the subnational level into systemic models of security analysis. The comparative analysis conducted enables the reconstruction of a multi-level transmission mechanism of threats (top-down) and resilience (bottom-up). The findings lead to the proposal of a model in which local government functions as a translational node linking the structural, normative, discursive, and institutional dimensions of security. The article demonstrates that the stability of a regional security complex is a function of the quality and density of subnational resilience nodes.

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