The authors of the book examine the phenomenon of crisis from the perspective of political and economic science. The texts of the book are focused on four aspects of the crisis: (1) the development problem, (2) the structural problem, (3) the management problem and (4) the problem of the weakening legitimacy of a specific crisis-stricken system. This book offers a proposal for a methodological approach to the evaluation of crisis reality and to research on the ways of overcoming the crisis by state authorities. The four proposed aspects of the analysis are an attempt to view the crisis from various perspectives, which are interrelated and not always clearly separable.

Marek Aleksander Cichocki is a research director at the Natolin European Centre, a professor of International Relations at the Collegium Civitas and a visiting professor at the College of Europe Natolin. Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse is a sociologist, political scientist and historian. He is also a professor at the University of Warsaw and the head of the Department of European Union Policies.