1st Edition
The International System in the Post-Pandemic World Perspectives for Europe and Asia
Part 1: COVID-19 and the Transformation of the Global Order
Introduction: Asymmetric shocks and the transformation of Global Politics: Case study of COVID-19 by Marcin Grabowski, Luca Verzichelli
Chapter 1: COVID-19, Complexity and the Transformation of the World Politics by Marcin Grabowski
Chapter 2: Even Braver New World? Geopolitical Implications of COVID-19 and How the World Order is Reshaping by Hajer Trabelsi, Istvan Tarrósy
Chapter 3: Asymmetric Shocks and the Sino-American Power Transition by Niall Duggan, Marcin Grabowski
Chapter 4: Understanding Complex Systems Through Suboptimization, Contagion, and Self-Learning: A Case Study of China by Marcin Grabowski, Sławomir Wyciślak
Part 2: Asia and Euro-Asia in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 5: China and the Global Financial Order after the COVID-Pandemic by Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Niall Duggan
Chapter 6: ASEAN way of coping with COVID-19: challenges for ASEAN centrality in the post-pandemic region by Hana Umezawa
Chapter 7: China’s Health Diplomacy in Reintegrating the Image of the Country Abroad during COVID-19 by Ewa Trojnar
Chapter 8: COVID-19 and the Accelerted Decoupling between China and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe by Emilian Kavalski
Chapter 9: Infectious Ideas: Chinese Discourses on Extremism in Xinjiang, the Infodemic, and Biopolitical Language after COVID-19 by David O’Brien, Melissa Shani Brown
Part 3: Europe in the Times of Pandemic
Chapter 10: A Leader for Difficult Times: Russian Domestic and International Politics during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Light of the ‘Collective Programming of the Mind’ by Małgorzata Abassy
Chapter 11: Europe’s Place in the Post-Pandemic World: The Challenge of Transnational Democratization in the Wake of COVID-19 by Richard Milner
Chapter 12: The impact of Next Generation EU on member states: the case of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan by Mattia Guidi
Chapter 13: Bound to the Audience: Foreign Policy Decision-Making and the Costs of Empty Threats and Unkept Promises in Successful and Unsuccessful War Scenarios by Sergio Martini, Francesco Olmastroni, Pierangelo Isernia
Chapter 14: The Threats to Public Finance as a Consequence of the Stimulation of the Polish economy After the COVID-19 Pandemic by Piotr Łasak
Biographical notes
Biography
Marcin Grabowski, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Kraków and the director of the Centre for International Studies and Development at the JU. His research interests focus on the Asia–Pacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements in the region, American and Chinese foreign policy, theories of IR and International Economics.
Luca Verzichelli is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Siena and Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. He is and has been member of the Editorial Board of the journals Polis, European Political Science, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Southern European Society and Politics. He has been Chief Editor of the Italian Political Science Review (2010–2014). He is currently Chair of the Italian Political Science Association and member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group of European Universities. He has published 12 volumes and several peer-reviewed articles in different fields, including élite studies, comparative political institutions and history of European political science.
