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- ISBN 9781032941516
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines how power dynamics unfold during crises, focusing on how transformations in competing socio-political arenas, both domestic and international, shape power structures. As old certainties and institutions collapse, actors must navigate new turbulent conditions.
The chapters in this book address key questions: What power dynamics reveal themselves when people are faced with especially threatening situations? How is control allocated in times of threat? How does the democratic process evolve during crises? What power structures emerge after a crisis? What power dynamics establish themselves after the crises are abated? Do crises lead to better or worse political systems? What dimensions of power are most influential in driving political change during crises?
This book explores how crises lead to the redistribution of power, with new actors emerging as key providers of resources. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, it examines power dynamics in both short- and long-term contexts. Aimed at students and scholars of political science, international relations, sociology, and crisis management, it covers governance, power shifts, and institutional change during crises.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Power.
Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York City, NY USA. He has also been Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Rome, Italy. He is editor of the book series Social and Political Power at Manchester University Press and is Co-Chair of the Research Group on Political Power (RC36) in the International Political Science Association. He has published numerous books and articles in the fields of power and international relations.
