Information Resilience and Comprehensive Security: Challenges and Complexities in Wicked Environments

The Finnish tradition of comprehensive security — the whole-of-society approach to national resilience that integrates government, civil society, business, and citizens into a coordinated defence posture — has become an increasingly influential model for democratic states seeking to build systemic resilience to information threats. This volume, drawing on Finnish and Nordic research and practice, provides the most rigorous academic treatment of information resilience within that framework.

The "wicked environments" framing is theoretically productive: it captures the non-linear, multi-actor, and value-contested character of the information environment in ways that more conventional security frameworks do not. For policy advisers and organisational resilience practitioners, the volume bridges theory and implementation more successfully than most, and the Nordic case studies offer concrete evidence of what whole-of-society resilience looks like in practice.