1st Edition
Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge
Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge brings together authors from various disciplinary backgrounds to examine the impacts of the pandemic on world politics and international relations, focusing on diplomacy and national, regional, and global responses to COVID-19.
The authors adopt a critical perspective which questions the general assumption that security is only related to state security. The book’s first part deals with diplomacy and COVID-19, exploring forms such as virtual, digital, and science diplomacy. The second part, on national and regional responses to COVID-19, provides a detailed evaluation of the foreign policies of states and regional actors and the national/regional impacts of the pandemic. The third part investigates the responses of international organisations, such as NATO and the OECD, to COVID-19’s transformative and disruptive effects.
This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers of international relations, diplomacy, security studies, global governance, political science, political economy, and global public health, especially those with a particular focus on COVID-19 and how it has changed the world.
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Preface
Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş and Ahmet Gökbel
Acknowledgements
Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş and Ahmet Gökbel
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Pandemic, Security, and Other Broken Things
Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş and Ahmet Gökbel
Part I: Diplomacy and COVID-19
2. Transformation of the International System and Security Conundrum During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ferhat Pirinççi and Tunç Demirtaş
3. Far-Right Movements in the COVID-19 Era
Dolapo Fakuade
4. Virtual Diplomacy as a New Frontier of International Dialogue
Alessia Chiriatti
5. Diplomacy 3.0 in the Pandemic: Digital Diplomacy and Beyond
Erman Akıllı and Gülnihan Cihanoğlu Gülen
6. Science Diplomacy and COVID-19 Politics
Ebru Canan-Sokullu and Atakan Yılmaz
Part II: National and Regional Responses to COVID-19
7. Global Health Diplomacy and Türkiye
İdris Demir
8. Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Health Policies in the US and Canada
Çağrı Erhan and Efe Sıvış
9. China’s Global Health Diplomacy in the Post-Pandemic Era: Implications for Southeast Asian Countries
Cemre Pekcan
10. COVID-19 and South Korea: Focusing on Cultural Public Diplomacy with Hallyu
Yunhee Kim and Erman Akıllı
11. ASEAN’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Regional and Global Reflections
Hatice Çelik
12. Beyond Central Asia’s Chessboard: Human Movement, Policies, and COVID-19
Olga R. Gulina
13. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Middle East: Changing Policies and the Mindset of Regional States
Muhittin Ataman and Mehmet Rakipoğlu
14. The UK’s New Migration Policy: Post-Brexit and Post-COVID Implications
Ayşe Gülce Uygun
15. Post-Pandemic World Order and Russia
Fırat Purtaş
16. South Caucasus and COVID-19: Vulnerabilities, Setbacks, Responses
F. Didem Ekinci
Part III: Global Responses to COVID-19
17. Human Impact on the Environment and the Increased Likelihood of Pandemics
Ana-Belén Soage
18. The World Health Organization and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Haydar Karaman and Burak Güneş
19. The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Security Issue and its Implications for NATO
Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu
20. Post-Pandemic Effects on the Realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for OECD Countries
R. Arzu Kalemci and Mehmet Güray Ünsal
21. The African Union and COVID-19: Regional Coordination and Solidarity
Bilge Sahin
22. Europe in the Post-Pandemic World Order: A Human Rights Perspective
Ebru Demir
23. Globalisation in the Era of Power Transition: Lessons Post-COVID-19 for China and the US
Matti Izora İbrahim, Büşra Yilmaz and Murat Çemrek
24. Conclusion: Per Aspera Ad Astra
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Index
Biography
Erman Akıllı is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye.
Burak Güneş is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye.
Ahmet Gökbel is Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, and Vice-Rector, at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Türkiye.
