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 driving 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.
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. The driving question driving each chapter is to what extent COVID-19, and the reaction to it, transformed the world.
Introduction
Marcin Grabowski, Luca Verzichelli, COVID-19 and the Transformation of the
World Politics
Part 1: COVID-19 and the Transformation of the World Politics
Chapter: 1 Even Braver New World? Geopolitical Implications of COVID-19 and
How the World Order is Reshaping
Hajer Trabelsi, Istvan Tarrósy
Chapter 2: Awareness, Adaptation with (no) Advancement? The Pandemic
Experience as a cutting edge of Future Political European Science
Luca Verzichelli
Chapter 3:Trust, transparency and surveillance in the post-pandemic world
Pawe Laider
Chapter 4: Christian nationalism in the US and its response to COVID.
National and international implications
Paulina Napieraa
Part 2: Asia and Euro-Asia in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 5: Alternative Leadership: China and Global Finance in a
Post-Pandemic World Order
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Niall Duggan
Chapter 6: ASEAN way of coping with COVID-19: challenges for ASEAN centrality
in the post-pandemic region
Hana Umezawa
Chapter 7: Chinas Health Diplomacy in Reintegrating the Image of the Country
Abroad during COVID-19
Ewa Trojnar
Chapter 8: Role of COVID-19 in Changing Dynamic of Great Power Relations:
US-China Case Study
Marcin Grabowski
Chapter 9: Covid-19 and the Acceleration in the Decoupling between China and
the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Emilian Kavalski
Chapter 10: Infectious Extremism: Biopolitical discourses in the wake of
Covid-19: Chinese discourses on Xinjiang, and the Covid infodemic
David OBrien and Melissa Shani Brown
Part 3: Europe in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 11: 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
Magorzata Abassy
Chapter 12: Europe's Place in the Post-Pandemic World: The Challenge of
Transnational Democratization in the Wake of Covid-19
Richard Milner
Chapter 13: The impact of Next Generation EU on member states: the case of
the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Mattia Guidi
Chapter 14: Exporting audience costs to new contexts: Types of commitment and
policy outcomes in democratic and electoral authoritarian regimes
Sergio Martini, Francesco Olmastroni and Pierangelo Isernia, Paolo Pin,
Gianni Betti
Chapter 15: The threats for public finance as a consequence of the
stimulation of the Polish economy after the COVID-19 pandemic
Piotr asak
Conclusion
Marcin Grabowski, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Kraków and the director of the Centre for International Studies and Development at the JU. His research interests focus on the AsiaPacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements in the region, American and Chinese foreign policy, theories of IR and International Economics.
Luca Verzichelli is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Siena and Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. He is and has been member of the Editorial Board of the journals Polis, European Political Science, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Southern European Society and Politics. He has been Chief Editor of the Italian Political Science Review (20102014). He is currently Chair of the Italian Political Science Association and member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group of European Universities. He has published 12 volumes and several peer-reviewed articles in different fields, including élite studies, comparative political institutions and history of European political science.
