States in Shock: The Adaptive Capacities of State Administrations to Transboundary Crises

In the last twenty to thirty years, national states have experienced existential and transboundary crises and shocks. The way in which states have dealt with these shocks is far from ideal. In this project, we examine how the governance systems of national states respond to transboundary crises and whether governments are able to adapt them to better absorb future shocks.