Political crisis

October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States

Biden's decision to stop his 2024 re-election campaign and endorse Kamala Harris

mutiny in the Chinese army

international crisis following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état

problem or conflict in the function of a government that a political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve

political scandal

Conflict over discrimination within the military

mass resignation or threat thereof, of top-level government advisers

affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.

Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to stop his 1968 re-election campaign