The Afterworld
Long COVID and International Relations
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2024
- Category
- General, Contagious, Globalization
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776641478
- Publish Date
- Apr 2024
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780776641553
- Publish Date
- Apr 2024
- List Price
- $64.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776641492
- Publish Date
- Apr 2024
- List Price
- $22.99
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COVID-19 sparked the largest global crisis of the 21st century, extending well beyond public health. For some, the impact was swift and dramatic, with the pandemic pushing tens of millions into poverty and creating extreme food insecurity; for others, the transformations are still bubbling under the surface. Efforts to arrest the spread of COVID-19 entailed far-reaching forms of government intervention and the extensive use of new technologies. Questions thus remain as to whether the societal changes brought about by COVID-19 will endure in the post-pandemic period. The return of geopolitics, along with the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia, have further complexified an already complex global situation.
Since March 2020, there has been an explosion of analyses about the short-term impacts and future global consequences of COVID-19. Parallels to the 1930s collapse of Europe have been made, as recounted by Stefan Zweig in his famous memoir, The World of Yesterday. While most commentators are pessimistic, some are looking for positive change. Faced with this unprecedented crisis, we have been propelled to think about how, in the “next world,” we can strengthen economic prosperity, social justice, the environment, gender relations, public health, and political institutions—or at least ensure that these features of our world do not continue to deteriorate.
In The Afterworld, 50 professors from four Montreal universities, among the foremost experts in their fields, propose progressive, pragmatic, and social science-based ideas with the potential to improve international cooperation, security, human rights, and sustainable prosperity beyond the pandemic.
About the authors
Frédéric Mérand is professor of political science and director of the Centre for International Studies at Université de Montréal, CÉRIUM.
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Jennifer Welsh teaches international relations and is a fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. She is the author of At Home In The World: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century (2004) and is a frequent commentator in the media on Canadian foreign policy and international affairs.
Ngaire Woods is a fellow in politics and international relations at University College, Oxford, and director of the Global Economic Governance Programme. She is the author of The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers (2006) and many other books and articles on developing countries in global economic governance.
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Daniel Béland est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en politiques publiques à la Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (Université de la Saskatchewan). Détenteur d’un doctorat en sociologie politique de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), il a été chercheur invité à l’Université Harvard, à l’Université de Chicago et à l’Université George Washington, ainsi qu’au Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Ses travaux portent principalement sur les transformations de la protection sociale dans les sociétés contemporaines.
Karim Benyekhlef is Professor of Law at the Université de Montréal. He is also the Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, which he founded in 2010. His recent publications include Vers un droit global? (Éditions Thémis, 2016) and Une possible histoire de la norme. Les normativités émergentes de la mondialisation, 2e édition (Éditions Thémis, 2015).
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Mark R. Brawley is Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. He has taught at McGill since 1990, except for 2000-2001, when he was a visitor at Harvard`s Department of Government. He is the author of several books including Afterglow or Adjustment? (Columbia University Press, 1999) and Power, Money, and Trade: Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
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Dominique Caouette est professeur au Département de science politique, directeur du Réseau d’études des dynamiques transnationales et de l’action collective (REDTAC) et responsable du pôle de recherche Études contemporaines et transdisciplinaires de l’Asie du Sud-Est (ECTASE) de l’Université de Montréal.
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Pierre-Marie David's profile page
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Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal-based lawyer and lecturer. She has worked with human rights systems in six countries, including Canada. Eliadis teaches civil liberties at McGill University and is president of the Quebec Bar Association's Advisory Committee on Human Rights.
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François Furstenberg is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.
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María Martín de Almagro Iniesta's profile page
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Laurence Monnais is a professor and the Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism in the Department of History at Université de Montréal.
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Mireille Paquet is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University.
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Pierre-Olivier Pineau's profile page
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Samuel Tanner is professor in the School of Criminology at Université de Montréal.
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Alain-G. Gagnon holds the Canada Research Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His most recent book is Québec: State and Society, third edition (Broadview Press, 2004). Other books include Ties That Bind: Parties and Voters in Canada (with James Bickerton and Patrick J. Smith) and Six penseurs en quête de liberté: Grant, Innis, Laurendeau, Rioux, Taylor et Trudeau (with James Bickerton and Stephen Brooks).
Excerpt: The Afterworld: Long COVID and International Relations (edited by Frédéric Mérand & Jennifer Welsh; contributions by Anthony Amicelle, Valérie Amiraux, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Ari Van Assche, Daniel Béland, Karim Benyekhlef, Mark R. Brawley, Dominique Caouette, Allison Christians, Ryoa Chung, François Crépeau, Pierre-Marie David, Magdalena Dembińska, Peter Dietsch, Thomas Druetz, Pearl Eliadis, Philippe Fournier, François Furstenberg, Pablo Gilabert, Timothy Hodges, Maya Jegen, Juliet Johnson, Nicholas King, Erick Lachapelle, Justin Leroux, Pierre Martin, Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, María Martín de Almagro Iniesta, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Theodore McLauchlin, Frédéric Mégret, Cynthia Milton, Laurence Monnais, Christian Novak, Mireille Paquet, T.V. Paul, Krzysztof Pelc, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Vincent Pouliot, René Provost, Lee Seymour, Thomas Soehl, Maïka Sondarjee, Samuel Tanner, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Hamish van der Ven, Luna Vives, Marie-Joëlle Zahar & Alain Gagnon)
What does our post-COVID-19 world look like? How is humanity recovering from this pandemic and all its economic and social repercussions? These are questions we are all asking. This volume offers answers from some fifty professors. They examine the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on essential aspects of our future, including not only how to prevent epidemics and better contain them when they do hit but also what has become of democracies grappling with authoritarian and populist pressures; the protection of rights and freedoms and of minorities; the safeguarding of privacy in the face of surveillance technology; the deployment of digital technology and platforms, their regulation, taxation, and effects on public debate; biodiversity protection and the fight against climate change; production chain reliability and the tension between free trade and protectionism; the reduction of wealth inequalities between and within countries; the solvency of states, companies, and individuals; the quest for peace and the avoidance of a new Cold War despite conflict between powers, particularly between the United States and China; multilateralism and how international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization function; and migratory flows and migrant worker integration.