Strategic Crisis Leadership in the Middle East

Alessia Tortolini is Researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. Her research interests include strategic crisis management in the Middle East and North Africa.

• 1. Introduction: crisis, disaster, and the Covid-19 pandemic in Lebanon.-2. Strategic crisis leadership: theoretical perspectives.-3. Rules, actors and the socio-political environment in Lebanon: the institutional analysis development approach.-4. Lebanese strategic leadership during Covid-19.-5. Conclusions: crisis management in the Global South.