Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge brings together authors from various disciplinary backgrounds to examine the impacts of the pandemic on world politics and international relations, focusing on diplomacy and national, regional, and global responses to COVID-19.
The authors adopt a critical perspective which questions the general assumption that security is only related to state security. The book’s first part deals with diplomacy and COVID-19, exploring forms such as virtual, digital, and science diplomacy. The second part, on national and regional responses to COVID-19, provides a detailed evaluation of the foreign policies of states and regional actors and the national/regional impacts of the pandemic. The third part investigates the responses of international organisations, such as NATO and the OECD, to COVID-19’s transformative and disruptive effects.
This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers of international relations, diplomacy, security studies, global governance, political science, political economy, and global public health, especially those with a particular focus on COVID-19 and how it has changed the world.
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Pandemic, Security and Other Broken Things Part I: Diplomacy and COVID-19 2. Transformation of the International System and Security Conundrum During the COVID-19 Pandemic 3. Far-Right Movements in the COVID-19 Era 4. Virtual Diplomacy as a New Frontier of International Dialogue 5. Diplomacy 3.0 in the Pandemic: Digital Diplomacy and Beyond 6. Science Diplomacy and COVID-19 Politics Part II: National and Regional Responses to COVID-19 7. Global Health Diplomacy and Türkiye 8. Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Health Policies in the US and Canada 9. China’s Global Health Diplomacy in the Post-Pandemic Era: Implications for Southeast Asian Countries 10. COVID-19 and South Korea: Focusing on Cultural Public Diplomacy with Hallyu 11. ASEAN’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Regional and Global Reflections 12. Beyond Central Asia’s Chessboard: Human Movement, Policies, and COVID-19 13. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Middle East: Changing Policies and the Mindset of Regional States 14. The UK’s New Migration Policy: Post-Brexit and Post-COVID Implications 15. Post-Pandemic World Order and Russia 16. South Caucasus and COVID-19: Vulnerabilities, Setbacks, Responses Part III: Global Responses to COVID-19 17. Human Impact on the Environment and the Increased Likelihood of Pandemics 18. The World Health Organization and the COVID-19 Pandemic 19. The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Security Issue and its Implications for NATO 20. Post-Pandemic Effects on the Realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for OECD Countries 21. The African Union and COVID-19: Regional Coordination and Solidarity 22. Europe in the Post-Pandemic World Order: A Human Rights Perspective 23. Globalisation in the Era of Power Transition: Lessons Post-COVID-19 for China and the US 24. Conclusion: Per Aspera Ad Astra
Erman Akıllı is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye. Burak Güneş is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye. Ahmet Gökbel is Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, and Vice-Rector, at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye.
