bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 3, 1988
Are Crisis Operations the New Normal?
DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS ALONE, destabilizing events have come at us fast and furious: a global pandemic, the triumphant re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Each, on their own, could be described as…
Managing Transition
… My tour of duty in Washington was from 1989 to 1993 — the first Bush presidency. Many in the current Bush Administration were also players back then — Cheney, Powell, Zoellick, Rice and Andy Card, to name a few. They know…
Controlling the Crisis Climate
One always wishes for greater age, wisdom, insight or argumentative powers in crises cases, but what is really needed is a formal crisis management plan. Such a plan need not anticipate the actual cause of the crisis, but it should contain policy…
