This book analyses the multidimensional influence of COVID-19 on world politics, with a special focus on Euro-Asian relations, as well as changes in Europe caused by the pandemic. Expert international and interdisciplinary contributors analyse the measures undertaken to counter COVID, its use to justify increased governmental surveillance, the role of religion and regional institutions and the great power transformations, and the economic crisis that resulted from it. The question driving each chapter is to what extent COVID-19, and the reaction to it, transformed the world. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Public Diplomacy, World Politics and Security Studies. This publication will be also relevant for professionals in the corporate world, international business, state departments, political journalism and think tanks.
Part 1: COVID-19 and the Transformation of the Global Order
Introduction: Asymmetric shocks and the transformation of Global Politics: Case study of COVID-19 by Marcin Grabowski, Luca Verzichelli
Chapter 1: COVID-19, Complexity and the Transformation of the World Politics by Marcin Grabowski
Chapter 2: Even Braver New World? Geopolitical Implications of COVID-19 and How the World Order is Reshaping by Hajer Trabelsi, Istvan Tarrósy
Chapter 3: Asymmetric Shocks and the Sino-American Power Transition by Niall Duggan, Marcin Grabowski
Chapter 4: Understanding Complex Systems Through Suboptimization, Contagion, and Self-Learning: A Case Study of China by Marcin Grabowski, Slawomir Wycislak
Part 2: Asia and Euro-Asia in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 5: China and the Global Financial Order after the COVID-Pandemic by Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Niall Duggan
Chapter 6: ASEAN way of coping with COVID-19: challenges for ASEAN centrality in the post-pandemic region by Hana Umezawa
Chapter 7: Chinas Health Diplomacy in Reintegrating the Image of the Country Abroad during COVID-19 by Ewa Trojnar
Chapter 8: COVID-19 and the Accelerted Decoupling between China and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe by Emilian Kavalski
Chapter 9: Infectious Ideas: Chinese Discourses on Extremism in Xinjiang, the Infodemic, and Biopolitical Language after COVID-19 by David OBrien, Melissa Shani Brown
Part 3: Europe in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 10: A Leader for Difficult Times: Russian Domestic and International Politics during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Light of the 'Collective Programming of the Mind by Malgorzata Abassy
Chapter 11: Europes Place in the Post-Pandemic World: The Challenge of Transnational Democratization in the Wake of COVID-19 by Richard Milner
Chapter 12: The impact of Next Generation EU on member states: the case of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan by Mattia Guidi
Chapter 13: Bound to the Audience: Foreign Policy Decision-Making and the Costs of Empty Threats and Unkept Promises in Successful and Unsuccessful War Scenarios by Sergio Martini, Francesco Olmastroni, Pierangelo Isernia
Chapter 14: The Threats to Public Finance as a Consequence of the Stimulation of the Polish economy After the COVID-19 Pandemic by Piotr Lasak
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