1st Edition

Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge

Edited By Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş, Ahmet Gökbel Copyright 2024
312 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Preface

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Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Pandemic, Security, and Other Broken Things

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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.