Overview
- Addresses how different political regimes tackled the pandemic
- Looks at the global response to the pandemic and tackles the political economy response to COVID 19
- Covers all global regions based on rigorous primary research
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Neo-Liberal States
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Authoritarian States
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About this book
This book seeks to identify the reasons why some countries were more efficient and effective than others in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, and why the global community failed to coalesce. What are the political determinants of the different state responses to the pandemic? Why was scientific advice rejected or ignored in many countries? What has been the role, respectively, of neoliberalism, populism, and authoritarianism in the making of Covid-19 policy? What role have each of these factors played in the uneven and clearly inadequate global response to the pandemic?
In an effort to understand why some states failed to handle the pandemic properly, some of the literature suggests that populism is at the root of the current failure of international co-operation. The global financial crisis of 2008-10 triggered significant cooperation within the G-20, led by the combined efforts of the United States and China. These forms of cooperation have clearly disappeared in the context of the pandemic, not only with respect to economic policy but also in public health and management. The authors of this volume link the different state responses to the pandemic-- from its inception to the start of the vaccination campaign, and to the political regimes prevailing in each. In particular, the present volume focuses on a distinction between the responses of neo-liberal regimes, populist regimes and authoritarian ones.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alan Cafruny (Ph.D.) Cornell (1983) is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. He is the author of numerous books including Ruling the Waves: The Political Economy of International Shipping (Univ. of California Press 1987; 2020); Europe at Bay (Lynne Rienner, 2008, with Magnus Ryner) The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan, with Magnus Ryner, 2017). Most recently he has co-edited The Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo , 2017). He is a former series editor (with Herman Schwartz) of the series: Advances in International Political Economy, sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19
Editors: Alan W. Cafruny, Leila Simona Talani
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23914-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23913-7Published: 26 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23916-8Published: 27 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23914-4Published: 25 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Political Science and International Relations, general, Public Health