Decision Making in a Crisis

Abstract

The word crisis enjoys a number of different meanings according to the context in which it is employed. For the present purposes, a crisis may be understood to mean a certain point in the trajectory of an event at which the future course of the matter is determined. A crisis represents an opportunity for intervention, a moment at which the outcome, for good or ill, might be influenced. A crisis, whatever its character or context, mostly raises an issue of choice. Nevertheless, some crises are autonomous in the sense that they have the potential to resolve themselves after their own fashion regardless of the exercise of whatever choices