Local Government as a Resilience Hub:
Multi-Level Transmission of Threats and Resilience
in the Regional Security Complex
1
ITECH – Sieć Łukasiewicza
Дата публикации: 2026-05-18
Studia Politologiczne 2026;80
КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА:
regional securityinternational securitylocal governmentresilienceRSCTsecuritizationneorealismregional security governancemulti-level transmission
СТАТЬЯ:
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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