"Contemporary societies are increasingly crisis-prone and crises have profound implications for the rapidly changing political, economic, and social landscape. Crises pose major challenges to governments, communities, leaders and organizations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis provides...

Purpose – Taming the complexity of crisis and integrating diverse narratives and sources regarding crisis events is a serious challenge. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for reconstructing, dissecting, and thematically comparing crisis experiences, using the 7/7 London...

Books Reviewed: Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein and Robert Baldwin. The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes Kathleen J. Thierney, Michael K. Lindell, and Ronald W. Perry. Facing the Unexpected: Disaster Preparedness and Response in the United States Frank-Jurgen Richter....

The poliheuristic theory of decision (PH) is placed in its proper historical context through a brief diachronic overview of the evolution of the foreign policy decision-making tradition from Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to the present. The PH program is examined and contextualized in synchronic...