Presently, crisis management in the Republic of Croatia is not completely regulated. There are some partial solutions for crisis responses within the area of responsibility of respective governmental institutions, but a unitary crisis response system at the state level doesn’t exist. Therefore, the research object of this paper is crisis management, with the aim to create appropriate model proposal for crisis management in the Republic of Croatia. The main research objective is to formulate proposal for the unitary strategic crisis management system in Croatia. Methods of analysis, synthesis and comparative analysis, as well as the data from relevant literature, legislative regulations, subject-matter web sites and internal documentation of the Croatian Ministry of Defence have been used for the accomplishment of the main research objective. Crisis management has been investigated by the analysis of existing legislation in Croatia and selected European Union member states. Crisis management systems in other states, as well as potential alternative ways of crisis management have been presented by comparative analysis. The research results (analysis, synthesis and comparative analysis) have been used to create proposal for strategic crisis management system in the Republic of Croatia.