Eric Stern
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4379539 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric Stern |
| NOMBRES | Eric |
| APELLIDO | Stern |
| FIRMA | STERN E |
| AFILIACIONES | Swedish Defence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7271-4411 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1947 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
85 long form essays Contemporary societies are increasingly crisis-prone, and crises have profound implications for the rapidly changing political, economic, and social landscape. Crises pose major challenges to governments, communities, leaders, and organizations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging and evolving field of crisis studies and explores its connection to several relevan…
The Trump Administration and the Covid ‐19 crisis
This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the…
Presidential Management Styles and Models
Every New President Faces the task of deciding how to structure and manage high-level foreign-policymaking in his administration. Periodically–indeed, at least once in each presidential administration–the foreign-policymaking system was reorganized. The president's basic choice is whether to give his secretary of state the primary role in the foreign-policymaking system or to centralize and manage that system from the White House itself. The pers…
Crisis Navigation
As fundamental tests of presidential leadership and organizational capacity, crises can make or break an administration. This article presents a conceptual analysis of what makes any crisis situation challenging to deal with, and it develops a set of analytical steps that can help crisis managers diagnose particular crisis situations they might face. The proposed crisis navigation framework brings together case research studies and theories of or…
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisi…
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisi…
Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
Journal Article Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise Get access Charles F. Parker, Charles F. Parker Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric K. Stern Eric K. Stern Uppsala University, The Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART), The Swedish National Defe…
Contextualizing and Critiquing the Poliheuristic Theory
The poliheuristic theory of decision (PH) is placed in its proper historical context through a brief diachronic overview of the evolution of the foreign policy decision-making tradition from Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to the present. The PH program is examined and contextualized in synchronic fashion via juxtaposition with three parallel lines of theoretical and empirical foreign policy decision-making research: cognitive institutionalism, problem …
Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis
For good and ill, the development of foreign policy analysis has been and will continue to be intimately linked to the phenomenon of crisis in both domestic and international politics. The problem of coping with crisis exerts a strong gravitational pull on scholars and practitioners alike for good political and psychological reasons. Crises are consequential, dramatic, vivid, and emotionally charged. They are moments or periods of truth in which …
Crisis Management Europe
This article describes the Crisis Management (CM) Europe program that seeks to produce scientific knowledge that can be used also in order to train practitioners to cope more effectively with national and regional crises. Initiated in 1997 with a focus on the Baltic Sea area, the program has recently been broadened to cover all of Europe. The program documents and analyzes specific cases of national and regional crises. It relies upon a contextua…
Harnessing Conflict in Foreign Policy Making
When making (foreign)policy, presidents must navigate between twin dangers: excessive conformity and destructive conflict among the policy advocates. The notions of devil's and multiple advocacy are reexamined in light of three decades of research in political science and psychology as coping strategies for dealing with these dangers. Devil's advocacy is of some help in promoting diversisity and mitgating tendencirs toward conformity, despite ser…
Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
The devastating terror attacks of 11 September 2001 have often been characterized as a “bolt from the blue.” Drawing inspiration from the political psychological literature on strategic surprise, this article poses the deceptively simple question of why so many U.S. policymakers were caught so woefully off guard last year. Through a preliminary empirical exploration of three broad explanatory “cuts” derived from the relevant interdisciplinary lit…
Crisis Management in Transitional Democracies
In this article we open the black box of governance in the new democracies by examining episodes where these governments are confronted with urgent threats that require swift and decisive state responses. This provides a unique insight into how political and administrative decision-making actually takes place. It enables us to analyse and evaluate the performance of the new institutions at times when it matters most. Specifically, we discuss how …
Crisis Management
Developments during this decade have transformed the character of the European security setting from one of relative political stability to a condition of considerable turbulence within its Central and Eastern regions. With clear trends toward increased interdependence across national boundaries and between sector areas, turbulence in any part of Europe will tend to generate conditions of considerable political concern also for governments in the…
Beyond Groupthink
Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, indeed, at times a pernicious influence on the content and quality of foreign policy decisions. Janis argued that "groupthink," a term he used to descr…
Crisis and Learning
Can governments learn? The title of an influential monograph by a leading political psychologist (Etheredge, 1985) posed this seemingly simplistic question. At first glance, the obvious answer to such a blunt question would appear to be ‘of course’. Governments (and government agencies) persist in spite of, or in some cases because of, dynamic and often hostile political environments. This would seem to indicate that a significant degree of learn…
Bringing the Environment In
This article presents the case for a comprehensive and multidimensional security concept, including a prioritized environmental component. Following a brief overview of the current state of the security debate, two very different lines of criticism against the notion of linking environment and security are presented and critiqued. The `orthodox' view argues that a relatively restrictive definition of security should be maintained in order to prot…
Information Management and the Whiskey on the Rocks Crisis
In this paper, an analytical framework is developed in order to investigate the role of information in crisis decision-making. Three theoretical nodes (information management functions) emerge from a discussion drawing upon earlier contributions by scholars such as Snyder and Diesing (1977) and George (1980), and more recent works by Vertzberger (1990) and Jönsson (1990). Search is an actor-oriented node focusing on the collection of data about t…
Managing Asymmetrical Crisis
Journal Article Managing Asymmetrical Crisis: Sweden, the USSR, and U-137 Get access Eric Stern, Eric Stern University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bengt Sundelius Bengt Sundelius University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 213–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600882 Publi…
Spontaneous Group References in France
Journal Article Spontaneous Group References in France Get access ERIC STERN, ERIC STERN The late Eric Stern was head of a Paris research organization which did foreign opinion and market research studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SUZANNE KELLER SUZANNE KELLER Suzanne Keller expects to receive her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in the fall of 1953. She is now with the Center for Internat…
The Universe, Translation, and Timing
Journal Article The Universe, Translation, and Timing Get access ERIC STERN ERIC STERN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 4, WINTER 1948, Pages 711–715, https://doi.org/10.1086/266014 Published: 01 January 1948
Some Polling Experiences in Switzerland
Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
The devastating terror attacks of 11 September 2001 have often been characterized as a “bolt from the blue.” Drawing inspiration from the political psychological literature on strategic surprise, this article poses the deceptively simple question of why so many U.S. policymakers were caught so woefully off guard last year. Through a preliminary empirical exploration of three broad explanatory “cuts” derived from the relevant interdisciplinary lit…
The Trump Administration and the Covid ‐19 crisis
This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the…
Harnessing Conflict in Foreign Policy Making
When making (foreign)policy, presidents must navigate between twin dangers: excessive conformity and destructive conflict among the policy advocates. The notions of devil's and multiple advocacy are reexamined in light of three decades of research in political science and psychology as coping strategies for dealing with these dangers. Devil's advocacy is of some help in promoting diversisity and mitgating tendencirs toward conformity, despite ser…
Contextualizing and Critiquing the Poliheuristic Theory
The poliheuristic theory of decision (PH) is placed in its proper historical context through a brief diachronic overview of the evolution of the foreign policy decision-making tradition from Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to the present. The PH program is examined and contextualized in synchronic fashion via juxtaposition with three parallel lines of theoretical and empirical foreign policy decision-making research: cognitive institutionalism, problem …
Crisis Management in Transitional Democracies
In this article we open the black box of governance in the new democracies by examining episodes where these governments are confronted with urgent threats that require swift and decisive state responses. This provides a unique insight into how political and administrative decision-making actually takes place. It enables us to analyse and evaluate the performance of the new institutions at times when it matters most. Specifically, we discuss how …
Managing Asymmetrical Crisis
Journal Article Managing Asymmetrical Crisis: Sweden, the USSR, and U-137 Get access Eric Stern, Eric Stern University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bengt Sundelius Bengt Sundelius University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 213–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600882 Publi…
Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
Journal Article Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise Get access Charles F. Parker, Charles F. Parker Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric K. Stern Eric K. Stern Uppsala University, The Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART), The Swedish National Defe…
Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis
For good and ill, the development of foreign policy analysis has been and will continue to be intimately linked to the phenomenon of crisis in both domestic and international politics. The problem of coping with crisis exerts a strong gravitational pull on scholars and practitioners alike for good political and psychological reasons. Crises are consequential, dramatic, vivid, and emotionally charged. They are moments or periods of truth in which …
Bringing the Environment In
This article presents the case for a comprehensive and multidimensional security concept, including a prioritized environmental component. Following a brief overview of the current state of the security debate, two very different lines of criticism against the notion of linking environment and security are presented and critiqued. The `orthodox' view argues that a relatively restrictive definition of security should be maintained in order to prot…
Crisis Management Europe
This article describes the Crisis Management (CM) Europe program that seeks to produce scientific knowledge that can be used also in order to train practitioners to cope more effectively with national and regional crises. Initiated in 1997 with a focus on the Baltic Sea area, the program has recently been broadened to cover all of Europe. The program documents and analyzes specific cases of national and regional crises. It relies upon a contextua…
Spontaneous Group References in France
Journal Article Spontaneous Group References in France Get access ERIC STERN, ERIC STERN The late Eric Stern was head of a Paris research organization which did foreign opinion and market research studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SUZANNE KELLER SUZANNE KELLER Suzanne Keller expects to receive her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in the fall of 1953. She is now with the Center for Internat…
Crisis Navigation
As fundamental tests of presidential leadership and organizational capacity, crises can make or break an administration. This article presents a conceptual analysis of what makes any crisis situation challenging to deal with, and it develops a set of analytical steps that can help crisis managers diagnose particular crisis situations they might face. The proposed crisis navigation framework brings together case research studies and theories of or…
Crisis Management
Developments during this decade have transformed the character of the European security setting from one of relative political stability to a condition of considerable turbulence within its Central and Eastern regions. With clear trends toward increased interdependence across national boundaries and between sector areas, turbulence in any part of Europe will tend to generate conditions of considerable political concern also for governments in the…
Information Management and the Whiskey on the Rocks Crisis
In this paper, an analytical framework is developed in order to investigate the role of information in crisis decision-making. Three theoretical nodes (information management functions) emerge from a discussion drawing upon earlier contributions by scholars such as Snyder and Diesing (1977) and George (1980), and more recent works by Vertzberger (1990) and Jönsson (1990). Search is an actor-oriented node focusing on the collection of data about t…
The Universe, Translation, and Timing
Journal Article The Universe, Translation, and Timing Get access ERIC STERN ERIC STERN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 4, WINTER 1948, Pages 711–715, https://doi.org/10.1086/266014 Published: 01 January 1948
Some Polling Experiences in Switzerland
The Universe, Translation, and Timing
Journal Article The Universe, Translation, and Timing Get access ERIC STERN ERIC STERN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 4, WINTER 1948, Pages 711–715, https://doi.org/10.1086/266014 Published: 01 January 1948
Spontaneous Group References in France
Journal Article Spontaneous Group References in France Get access ERIC STERN, ERIC STERN The late Eric Stern was head of a Paris research organization which did foreign opinion and market research studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SUZANNE KELLER SUZANNE KELLER Suzanne Keller expects to receive her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in the fall of 1953. She is now with the Center for Internat…
Information Management and the Whiskey on the Rocks Crisis
In this paper, an analytical framework is developed in order to investigate the role of information in crisis decision-making. Three theoretical nodes (information management functions) emerge from a discussion drawing upon earlier contributions by scholars such as Snyder and Diesing (1977) and George (1980), and more recent works by Vertzberger (1990) and Jönsson (1990). Search is an actor-oriented node focusing on the collection of data about t…
Managing Asymmetrical Crisis
Journal Article Managing Asymmetrical Crisis: Sweden, the USSR, and U-137 Get access Eric Stern, Eric Stern University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bengt Sundelius Bengt Sundelius University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 213–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600882 Publi…
Bringing the Environment In
This article presents the case for a comprehensive and multidimensional security concept, including a prioritized environmental component. Following a brief overview of the current state of the security debate, two very different lines of criticism against the notion of linking environment and security are presented and critiqued. The `orthodox' view argues that a relatively restrictive definition of security should be maintained in order to prot…
Beyond Groupthink
Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, indeed, at times a pernicious influence on the content and quality of foreign policy decisions. Janis argued that "groupthink," a term he used to descr…
Crisis and Learning
Can governments learn? The title of an influential monograph by a leading political psychologist (Etheredge, 1985) posed this seemingly simplistic question. At first glance, the obvious answer to such a blunt question would appear to be ‘of course’. Governments (and government agencies) persist in spite of, or in some cases because of, dynamic and often hostile political environments. This would seem to indicate that a significant degree of learn…
Crisis Management
Developments during this decade have transformed the character of the European security setting from one of relative political stability to a condition of considerable turbulence within its Central and Eastern regions. With clear trends toward increased interdependence across national boundaries and between sector areas, turbulence in any part of Europe will tend to generate conditions of considerable political concern also for governments in the…
Crisis Management Europe
This article describes the Crisis Management (CM) Europe program that seeks to produce scientific knowledge that can be used also in order to train practitioners to cope more effectively with national and regional crises. Initiated in 1997 with a focus on the Baltic Sea area, the program has recently been broadened to cover all of Europe. The program documents and analyzes specific cases of national and regional crises. It relies upon a contextua…
Harnessing Conflict in Foreign Policy Making
When making (foreign)policy, presidents must navigate between twin dangers: excessive conformity and destructive conflict among the policy advocates. The notions of devil's and multiple advocacy are reexamined in light of three decades of research in political science and psychology as coping strategies for dealing with these dangers. Devil's advocacy is of some help in promoting diversisity and mitgating tendencirs toward conformity, despite ser…
Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
The devastating terror attacks of 11 September 2001 have often been characterized as a “bolt from the blue.” Drawing inspiration from the political psychological literature on strategic surprise, this article poses the deceptively simple question of why so many U.S. policymakers were caught so woefully off guard last year. Through a preliminary empirical exploration of three broad explanatory “cuts” derived from the relevant interdisciplinary lit…
Crisis Management in Transitional Democracies
In this article we open the black box of governance in the new democracies by examining episodes where these governments are confronted with urgent threats that require swift and decisive state responses. This provides a unique insight into how political and administrative decision-making actually takes place. It enables us to analyse and evaluate the performance of the new institutions at times when it matters most. Specifically, we discuss how …
Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis
For good and ill, the development of foreign policy analysis has been and will continue to be intimately linked to the phenomenon of crisis in both domestic and international politics. The problem of coping with crisis exerts a strong gravitational pull on scholars and practitioners alike for good political and psychological reasons. Crises are consequential, dramatic, vivid, and emotionally charged. They are moments or periods of truth in which …
Contextualizing and Critiquing the Poliheuristic Theory
The poliheuristic theory of decision (PH) is placed in its proper historical context through a brief diachronic overview of the evolution of the foreign policy decision-making tradition from Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to the present. The PH program is examined and contextualized in synchronic fashion via juxtaposition with three parallel lines of theoretical and empirical foreign policy decision-making research: cognitive institutionalism, problem …
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisi…
The Politics of Crisis Management
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisi…
Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
Journal Article Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise Get access Charles F. Parker, Charles F. Parker Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric K. Stern Eric K. Stern Uppsala University, The Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART), The Swedish National Defe…
Crisis Navigation
As fundamental tests of presidential leadership and organizational capacity, crises can make or break an administration. This article presents a conceptual analysis of what makes any crisis situation challenging to deal with, and it develops a set of analytical steps that can help crisis managers diagnose particular crisis situations they might face. The proposed crisis navigation framework brings together case research studies and theories of or…
Presidential Management Styles and Models
Every New President Faces the task of deciding how to structure and manage high-level foreign-policymaking in his administration. Periodically–indeed, at least once in each presidential administration–the foreign-policymaking system was reorganized. The president's basic choice is whether to give his secretary of state the primary role in the foreign-policymaking system or to centralize and manage that system from the White House itself. The pers…
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
85 long form essays Contemporary societies are increasingly crisis-prone, and crises have profound implications for the rapidly changing political, economic, and social landscape. Crises pose major challenges to governments, communities, leaders, and organizations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging and evolving field of crisis studies and explores its connection to several relevan…
The Trump Administration and the Covid ‐19 crisis
This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the…
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