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A Sketch of the World After the COVID-19 Crisis

Essays on Political Authority, The Future of Globalization, and the Rise of China

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Promises to be the first reflection book on the political consequences of the Covid-19 crisis
  • Provides insightful philosophical and political thoughts about what societies ought to learn from this sanitary crisis and on the perspectives of what tomorrow’s world will look like
  • Concludes that this crisis may lead to systemic changes to international economy

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    • Jean-François Caron
    Pages 1-4
  3. On the Risk of a Thucydides’s Trap

    • Jean-François Caron
    Pages 41-54
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 55-56

About this book

This book tries to understand the lessons we ought to learn from the Covid-19 crisis as well as the profound transformations this pandemic will bring to the world order. These essays explore the challenge that the pandemic poses to liberalism, the unique potential this crisis offers us to retake control over globalization, and how it foreshadows  future conflicts, especially the dynamic between China and the West. This timely book will be of interest to scholars in Political Science and philosophy, as well as to general readers interested in what the post Covid-19 world may resemble.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Jean-François Caron

About the author

​Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

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