Resilient Global Supply Chains and Geopolitical Risk: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance)

Global supply chains, long seen as engines of efficiency and economic integration, have been increasingly disrupted by recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and shifts in trade and industrial policy.These developments have raised costs, increased uncertainty, and reduced the predictability of cross-border production and exchange.Firms operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) face particularly strong pressures as overlapping geopolitical forces reshape production networks, market access, and strategic choices. This book examines how firms build and sustain supply chain resilience (SCRES) under persistent geopolitical uncertainty.It maps how research on SCRES has evolved and provides detailed empirical evidence on how firms in the CEE region respond to geopolitical risk.Focusing on practical adjustment mechanisms such as supplier diversification, nearshoring, inventory buffering, and route reconfiguration, this book analyses how firms adapt supply chains i