Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Significance and Structure of International Risk and Crisis Communication Research; The Significance of International and Cross-Cultural Crisis Communication; Categories of International, Cross-Cultural, and Comparative Crisis Communication Research; Goals and Structure of the Handbook; References; Part I: Disciplinary Foundations for International Crisis Communication Research; 2 Political Science Research on Crises and Crisis Communications; Introduction; Crises are Political Phenomena.
  • Governmental Structures, Processes, and ProceduresGovernmental Response Systems and Operations; Political Leadership During Crises; Conclusion; References; 3 Delving into the Roots of Crises; Introduction; Conceptual and Methodological Pitfalls in the Traditional Crisis Management Literature; The Event Approach to Crises; The Process Approach to Crisis; Weak Signals: the Genealogy of Crises; To Conclude: To Believe or not to Believe; Implications for Crisis Communication; References; 4 The Psychology of Crisis Communication; Introduction; Risk Communication vs. Crisis Communication.
  • The Psychological Application of Crisis Communication and Risk CommunicationUnderstanding Human Responses to Crisis Situations; Implications for Crisis Communication; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Sociological Foundations of Crisis Communication; Introduction; Sociology as a Science of Crisis; On the Terms "Crisis" and "Risk" from a Sociological Perspective; Objectivist, Constructivist, and Integrative Concepts of Crisis; Contributions from Sociological Subdisciplines to Crisis Research; Sociological Theories of Crisis and Communication.
  • A Sociological Approach to Crisis CommunicationConclusion; References; 6 "Crisis" in Social Anthropology; Introduction; The Concept of Crisis in Cultural and Social Anthropology; The Westernness of Crisis; Crisis as a Heuristic Principle; Crises and the Problem of Stasis and Dynamics, Persistence and Transformation; Beyond Dichotomies: Crises as The Crystallization of Material and Discursive Processes of Ordering; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 7 Communication
  • Conclusions for an Integrative Approach to International Crisis Communication Research; Introduction.
  • The Disciplinary Research Approaches to Crisis Communication and Blind SpotsIntegrative Perspectives on Crisis; Integrative Perspectives on Crisis Communication; Key Attributes in Handling a Situation; Conclusion; References; Part II: Actors and Institutional Communicators in International Crises; 8 Military, Government, and Media Management in Wartime; Introduction; Military Media Management
  • Assumptions and Practices; Government-Media Relationships in Wartime
  • Theoretical Models; New Voices of War Communication; Conclusion and Implications for Communicator Research; References.