Main description:

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation. Unlike earlier crises, it has impacted the world's leading economies while also paralyzing international ties, provoking diverse and far-reaching reactions. The authors posit that no effective global response has been launched in response to this global catastrophe. Rather, governments have implemented a variety of policies based on the costs of virus protection against financial closure and isolation. In doing so, there has been a resurgence in nationalism. This book aims to provide comprehensive understanding of how the pandemic has widened political gaps, and demarcates what the long-term consequences might be in terms of policies and economics in the wake of the pandemic. Of interest to scholars in political geography, development studies, international relations, public administration, and health science, this book presents key observations on existing theories of global politics pivoted around the COVID-19 pandemic, and its ramifications on individuals, groups, and ultimately, the nation state.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1

The Pandemic and Global Politics

Introduction

The politics of the origin-trace

Argument, objectives and methods

Political geography of the pandemic

Reshaping democratic space

A new world order

Health regime and governance Conclusions

Chapter 2

Underlying Conceptual Approach

An Era or a Crisis?

Introduction

The origin theory discourse

The foundation of crisis models

Pandemic governance and security approach

Digital divide and growing disparity

Conclusions

Chapter 3

Politicization of Pandemic and the Ramifications

Introduction

What the history has to tell us

Reshaping compliance

Political temperature and responses

The migration domain

The public health

The disparity

The politics of anti-mask and anti-vaccine

Conclusions

Chapter 4

Pandemic, Predictions and Propagation

Introduction

The economic landscape

Politics and electoral system

The future globalization

The gainers and the losers

Getting ready for the future

Conclusions

Chapter 5

Choosing to End the Pandemic

Conclusions and Discussion

Is everything going to change?

Implications for politics

The recovery plans

References

Index