No. 23: Strategic Crisis Management

Trends and Concepts

Author(s): Christoph Doktor
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 23
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2007

The expansion of the threat spectrum has also entailed changes in the requirements made of strategic crisis management. Today, horizontally and vertically networked efforts of all relevant actors and institutions are required within the framework of a holistic crisis management approach. In conceiving such homeland security systems, two approaches have emerged - an institutional one and a process-oriented one. In the case of Switzerland, both aspects can be detected, although key questions about crisis response and leadership structures remain to be answered.

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