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 a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging and evolving field of crisis studies and explores its connection to several relevant neighboring fields of knowledge. Crises are complex, unfold in diverse political and socio-technical contexts, and must be studied and understood from multiple angles and disciplinary perspectives. This Encyclopedia brings together contributions by experts from political science, public administration, management, international relations, public health, sociology, economics, media and mass communications, the law, and many other fields to explore important theoretical, methodological, empirical, and practical issues related to crisis and crisis
management. Articles focus on concepts (crisis as well as closely related concepts such as emergency, disaster, resilience, security etc.), contingencies (natural hazards, major accidents, pandemics, terrorism, social and political conflict among many others), historical and contemporary cases, classic and cutting edge research methods, different phases of the crisis/emergency management cycle, as well as documenting a wide range of pitfalls and good practices that can help to forewarn and forearm current and future crisis managers.

The 84 essays in this Encyclopedia fall into six main categories: Theory, Concepts, Metatheory and Methodology, Crisis Governance and Regional Perspectives, Bridging Gaps, and Cases & the Evolving Socio-Technical Context. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis is a key reference for anyone involved in the study, research, or practice of crisis and emergency analysis and management.

About the Author:
Eric K. Stern is Professor of Political Science at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany (SUNY). Dr. Stern holds a PhD from Stockholm University and a BA from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, executive leadership, foreign policy analysis, and political psychology. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Defense University, where he served as Director of the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART) from 2004 to 2011. He is co-editor of Crisis Lawyering (NYU Press, 2021) and co-author of The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure, 2e (Cambridge University Press, 2017), winner of the American Political Science Association's Herbert A. Simon Award. Other key areas of interest and expertise include social media and crisis preparedness, postcrisis evaluation
and learning, interactive education and instructional design, and case research/teaching methodologies. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Stern has collaborated closely with a number of international organizations as well as European, Asian, and US government agencies on a wide range of applied research and educational-including training and exercise development-projects.