A systemic perspective on crisis management and resilience in Germany

In the past decades, Germany was hit – in equal measure to other countries Europe and beyond by multiple transboundary societal crises. We take stock of ability German state cope with ensuing complexity managing these exceptional situations. Conceptually, we apply a systemic perspective that asks about resilience subsystems policymaking crises, implementation administrative crisis management, as well responses The paper draws on findings from range empirical studies assembled this special issue, focus either so-called refugee 2015/16 or Covid-19 pandemic since 2020. Strikingly, overall impression emerging research is generally favorable politico-administrative system master challenging crises its resilience. But there are also areas for improvement.