The Politics of Pandemics
The Politics of COVID-19 in Mexico: Governance Meets Government
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas F Legler
February 12, 2025
This book evaluates the factors behind Mexico’s painful experience with the Covid-19 crisis, a country that ranked fifth in the world for the number of deaths caused by the virus. Through a series of vignettes, its authors point to pandemic politics as the culprit. With a focus on the nexus of ...
Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge
1st Edition
Edited
By Erman Akıllı, Burak Güneş, Ahmet Gökbel
January 30, 2025
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 ...
The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa: Public Policy Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Anis Ben Brik
May 27, 2024
This book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by exploring the impact and possible future outcomes in a region already struggling with the effects of a decade of uprisings, failed or difficult political transitions, state ...
Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment
1st Edition
Edited
By Sigurd Bergmann, Martin Lindström
December 19, 2022
This book considers Sweden’s pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world: it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism. Trans-disciplinary Swedish authors from the humanities, life sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies ...
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences
1st Edition
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By Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges, Yossi Nehushtan
November 30, 2022
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020–21. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about the impact of ...
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of COVID-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
1st Edition
By Mika Aaltola
May 05, 2022
This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based ...