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The politics of crisis management provides a stage for actors to pursue their interests. The outcome is unpredictable. The crisis response may strengthen public support for key institutions and political leaders but it may also erode legitimacy and bring leaders down. Given this, crises present politicians with critical challenges, but also with unprecedented opportunities. Incumbent politicians must try to make sense of crises, neutralize threats and minimize damage, while preserving legitimacy. They may also recognize and exploit the opportunity to enact policy changes that would be unthinkable in non-crisis times. Opposition politicians may not be in a position to shape the response to a crisis, but they can use their position to criticize the performance of political crisis managers and shore up their own position, identifying alternative ideas and policies that may unexpectedly make it to the top of the agenda. Fringe actors and outside forces have increasingly come to recognize the potential of crises as opportunities for directional change of policy and politics. We see extremists on both ends of the scale actively stirring up notions of crisis and seeking to exploit them. We also see outside actors entering the crisis arena through the manipulation of social media and the pushing of disinformation. Finally, the proliferation of global and regional crises has raised additional questions regarding the relevance of multilateral institutions, thus bringing forward queries related to the future of multilateral cooperation under crisis conditions and the ability of states to manage transboundary crises unilaterally. The aims of this research group is to bring together academics with an interest in all sorts of crises and the broad variety of actors trying to influence their outcomes. We invite all methodological perspectives on all sorts of crisis agents (ranging from climate change to political violence, from financial to hybrid warfare, from pandemic to cyber).

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First Name   Last Name   Institution   No. of Interests   Committee Role   Angelos Angelou Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences Arjen Boin Leiden University Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Leiden University Stella Ladi Queen Mary, University of London Martin Lodge The London School of Economics & Political Science    Loading… Loading…

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First Name   Last Name   Institution   No. of Interests   shuo wang National University of Singapore Elisa Paepcke University of Zurich samin Ustiashvili Webster University Gaélane Wolff Erasmus University Rotterdam Christos Thanopoulos University of Surrey Torsten Bornemann Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Helena Landwehr Leiden University Giorgos Tsiknakis Leiden University Konstantina Arnaouteli University of Piraeus Ziqiang Han Shandong University Malik Ali Hassan National Research University, Higher School of Economics – HSE Piero Tellerías Melgarejo Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne Page 1 of 9 (107 items)123456789 Loading…

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Event Type   Start Date   Emotional political analysis in crisis management Joint Sessions Research Network on The Politics of Crisis Management University of Innsbruck 7/4/2026 - 10/4/2026 CEST Read More    OK Cancel Loading… Loading…

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