Understanding COVID-19: Governance, Leadership and Organizations
The GSI team, The Australian National University
As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have continued to generate unprecedented levels of risk and uncertainty around the world, we have provided a list of resources explaining what the situation reveals about the capabilities of Nations and other Institutions to respond to crises below.
The consequences of poor leadership and the role of international cooperation:
Joseph Nye, the pandemic as a crisis in global leadership: https://tinyurl.com/yb4j5owy
The lack of international cooperation as a core component of the crisis (The Council on Foreign Relations): https://tinyurl.com/yaljow7f
Democracy vs Authoritarianism :
How differences in systems of governance shape national crisis response: https://tinyurl.com/ybj8ndyl
Military thought, terminology and war-like rhetoric as a part of the pandemic response: https://tinyurl.com/y8ephn63
Francis Fukuyama, the major dividing line in effective crisis response is not the system of governance but faith in institutions: https://tinyurl.com/ruqx524
Technology and information:
The risks of the employment of information technology and public surveillance (Brookings Institution): https://tinyurl.com/yawlyclv
The need for more robust digital infrastructure to improve national resilience (RAND Corporation): https://tinyurl.com/yaszl9vb
The basics of crisis and risk management
How organizations can use data to manage unprecedented risks or “black swans” (MIT Sloan): https://tinyurl.com/ycxs8gdj
An review of conventional “Frequentist” vs Bayesian risk management approaches (MIT Sloan): https://tinyurl.com/y7uh3tll
This one of two in a series of guides exploring the implications of the pandemic on a number of key security and risk issues.