Enhancing Nuclear Security Regimes: Exploring the Role of Governance Resilience

Governance resilience is crucial for supporting nuclear security regimes, enabling the system's governance to persist, adapt, and transform. A holistic perspective is essential, considering the system, context, and future considerations. Resilient governance requires deep internal understanding, broad external awareness, and forward-looking anticipation. Key functions of resilient governance in a nuclear security regime include understanding the context, development and transformation, coordination and resource management, external awareness, and effective communication. Drivers of resilience include a holistic perspective and value placed on governance, while inhibitors include narrow perspectives, limited value, fragility, and rigidity. Evaluating resilience drivers and inhibitors can identify areas for improvement and enhance overall regime resilience. Strengthening governance resilience ensures the effectiveness of nuclear security regimes.