Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in the Age of Catastrophic Crises and Hypercomplexity

by Erwan Lagadec

Since the 1990s, North America and Europe have confronted a series of unconventional, catastrophic, or hypercomplex crises. On the one hand, the U.S. and Canada have faced 9/11, the anthrax crisis, the SARS outbreak, and Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, Europe has been hit by the Mad Cow disease, the 2003 heatwave, and 2007 forest fires in Greece. In addition, both sides were involved in the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Events such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978882180
• ISBN13: 9780978882181
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hop
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"