Understanding COVID-19: Geopolitics
The GSI team, The Australian National University
COVID-19 has adjusted global risk perceptions and ignited significant geopolitical change around the world. This list aims to analyse the effects of the pandemic from multiple geopolitical perspectives to provide greater clarity in understanding the prevailing status quo and the trajectory of international relations.
Global Geopolitics:
Analysing Great Power competition, Micro-geopolitics and meta-geopolitics in understanding COVID-19’s impact on international politics (Institut Montaigne): https://tinyurl.com/w3ycaco
American exceptionalism in the age of COVID-19: https://tinyurl.com/ybz2xrjj
A comprehensive overview that forecasts COVID-19’s impact on Australia and the world (ASPI): https://tinyurl.com/yaq29tz2
12 papers on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for global governance (ETH Zurich): https://tinyurl.com/y7tt7ecu
Addressing risk perception through the lens of politics throughout COVID-19 (Becker Friedman Institute): https://tinyurl.com/y8gdqanx
Addresses the evolution and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean): https://tinyurl.com/y7v6aspl
Alliances & Defence
7 papers discussing NATO in the Age of Pandemics (ETH Zurich): https://tinyurl.com/y8j82kgn
Analyses of the opportunities for terrorist groups to operate in the current environment: https://tinyurl.com/y6wtndl4
Analysing Covid-19 and conflict in the Middle East: https://tinyurl.com/y862nrs2
Italian Airforce General Stefano Cont, addressing the prevailing multipolar system and evaluating European defence in the post-COVID world: (pt. 1) https://tinyurl.com/y83hk8ua, (pt. 2) https://tinyurl.com/y9yk8vcf
Analysing disinformation and social media manipulation during the global pandemic (ASPI): https://tinyurl.com/yap9ck4g
International Health Security
An overview of the health security threat spectrum that traces perceptions of biological and health security threats over the last century: https://tinyurl.com/ya65zqla
A 20-minute podcast addressing COVID-19’s effect on health security, the global economy, and international politics (CSIS): https://tinyurl.com/y9s5wupv
This one in a series of two guides exploring the implications of the pandemic on a number of key security and risk issues.