Political Power and Crisis - Essays on Political Power Dynamics in Turbulent Times

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Power dynamics in times of crisis: an introduction 1. Power and crisis: Bush's war on terror, democratic rollback and the four dimensions of power 2. The power of critique in the time of emergency: on normative fiction and critical fiction 3. Narrativizing power in times of (many) crises: the case of British conservative leaders 4. Not one inconvenient truth, but many: emergency narratives and climate change 5. The north of Ireland during the interregnum: a Gramscian analysis of power and crisis 6. Global value chains in a brave new world of geopolitics 7. Coercion and legitimacy as sources of power and crisis in autocratic, authoritarian and liberal-democratic leadership: a four-dimensional power analysis 8. Power and Polycrisis: on the durability of capitalism-patriarchy-colonialism (CPC) 9. From economic to structural power: agential capitalism, the belt and road initiative, and China's economic statecraft after the 2008 crisis

About the author

Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York City, USA. He is Co-Chairman of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee on Political Power (RC 36) and editor of the book series on Social and Political Power at Manchester University Press, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gallarotti Giulio M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032941516
• ISBN: 978-1-032-94151-6
• No. of pages: 191
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Military / General, Warfare & defence, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare and defence, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies