Social Crisis
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Research Article
COVID-19 Crisis Management in Schools: A Look at the Skills and Practices of Québec’s School Principals 6-21
514 195
Delobbe Anne-Michèle
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Olivier Lemieux
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This article proposes to identify the various practices implemented by the principals of Québec’s public elementary and secondary schools in order to ensure the academic and educational success of the greatest number of students during the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020. The analysis is based...
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Research Article
Economic Shocks and Political Regimes: How International Crises Impacted Autocratization and Democratization in Brazil, Germany, and the US 22-48
368 313
Adopting the historical-comparative method, this article addresses the impacts of the four international economic crises that occurred up to 2019 on the US, Germany, and Brazil, focusing on their effects on the State, especially on the political regime, and in the post-2008 period. The...
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Research Article
Public Trust as the Cornerstone of National Security Policy: Legitimacy, Governance, and Risk Management 17-27
479 316
Trust represents a fundamental pillar of contemporary security policy, influencing decision-making processes, institutional stability, and the effectiveness of security measures at both national and international levels. This article explores trust as a key precondition for the formulation and...
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Research Article
Sowing the Seeds of Trust Norms and Networks for Community Capacity Building and Socio-Economic Resilience 20-32
191 59
Dheerendra S. Gangwar
The necessity of community capacity building has been recognized as a key element in attaining sustained economic growth in rural areas in the post-COVID-19 era. People realized the importance of social capital in the form of cohesion and networking during this tough time and started...
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Research Article
The Building Blocks of Fake News: Rumor as a Core Component of Disinformation 45-60
72 16
Background: Rumor and disinformation are typically studied separately, leaving rumor’s tactical role within disinformation systems and its implications for societal resilience underexamined. This study addresses that gap by examining rumor’s structural role within...
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Research Article
The Democratic Foundation of Resilience Governance: The Institutional Construction of Digital Deliberative Democracy in Community Resilience Governance 15-29
185 164
Qiancheng Zhou
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As a digital manifestation of grassroots deliberative democracy, digital deliberative democracy serves as a pivotal institutional framework for strengthening the democratic foundation of community resilience governance, effectively addressing its comprehensive governance needs. Employing...
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Research Article
Ukraine: The Fear of Peace? Latent Post-War Risks and the Prospects for Reconstruction 9-44
501 50
Josef Myslín
The end of large-scale hostilities in Ukraine would represent an unequivocally positive development, yet peace itself will not eliminate the consequences of war. Rather, it may expose a set of accumulated demographic, social, economic and institutional pressures that are partly obscured by...