1st Edition

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

Edited By Giulio M. Gallarotti Copyright 2025
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Power dynamics in times of crisis: an introduction

Giulio M. Gallarotti

 

1. Power and crisis: Bush’s war on terror, democratic rollback and the four dimensions of power

Giulio M. Gallarotti

 

2. The power of critique in the time of emergency: on normative fiction and critical fiction

Kevin Ryan

 

3. Narrativizing power in times of (many) crises: the case of British conservative leaders

Alma-Pierre Bonnet

 

4. Not one inconvenient truth, but many: emergency narratives and climate change

Lena Partzsch

 

5. The north of Ireland during the interregnum: a Gramscian analysis of power and crisis

Chris Ó Rálaigh

 

6. Global value chains in a brave new world of geopolitics

Etel Solingen

 

7. Coercion and legitimacy as sources of power and crisis in autocratic, authoritarian and liberal-democratic leadership: a four-dimensional power analysis

Mark Haugaard

 

8. Power and polycrisis: on the durability of Capitalism-patriarchy-Colonialism (CPC)

Birgit M. Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele, Esther F. Jansen, Arianna Paterino, Flor Avelino and Katinka Wijsman

 

9. From economic to structural power: agential capitalism, the belt and road initiative, and China’s economic statecraft after the 2008 crisis

Vinícius G. Rodrigues Vieira

 

 

Biography

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.