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Chargement... Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order (original 2021; édition 2021)par Colin Kahl (Auteur), Thomas Wright (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. For more bookish posts please visit https://www.ManOfLaBook.com Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright takes a look at the global impact of COVID-19, including the political outcomes for the future. Mr. Kahl and Mr. Wright are America national security expects. It’s important to realize that we’re still far away from the end of COVID-19, but books about the mishandling of the pandemic on a global level are starting to come out. Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright is certainly one of them. Unlike other books I read, such as Preventable, this one touches on the international community as well, not the US specifically. The book is well outlined, and furthermore sourced to a fault. The year 2020 has been a strange one, some people certainly fared well… I felt as if I aged five years. The authors point out that this is the first crisis in several decades lacking American leadership, as well as international cooperation. Furthermore, the authors assess that the damage to United States prestige and diplomatic power done by the Trump Administration’s actions will forever hinder America’s soft power and trust among allies. The book was very informative, as well as very readable. The authors go to great lengths to make sure all of their information is, indeed, sourced. If not from an academic work specifically, then from a person who spoke “on the record”, for the most part. The book discusses the past, present, and future of many countries and their readiness. Equally important, the success and failures are also being discussed in an analytical, apolitical manner. That being said, this book is not all doom and gloom. The concerns going forward are discussed towards the end in a very efficient manner. Whether or not COVID-19 is going to have the significant geopolitical ramifications the book states remains to be seen. However, we can already see the signs on the wall for the next pandemic. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Two of America's leading national security experts offer the most definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the US and the world order in the 21st Century. "Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective, this is an indispensable first draft of history and blueprint for how we can move forward." -Ben Rhodes The COVID-19 crisis is the greatest shock to world order since World War II. Millions have been infected and killed. The economic crash caused by the pandemic is the worst since the Great Depression, with the International Monetary Fund estimating that it will cost over $9 trillion of global wealth in the next few years. Many will be left impoverished and hungry. Fragile states will be further hollowed out, creating conditions ripe for conflict and mass displacement. Meanwhile, international institutions and alliances already under strain before the pandemic are teetering, while the United States and China, already at loggerheads before the crisis, are careening toward a new Cold War. China's secrecy and assertiveness have shattered hopes that it will become a responsible stakeholder in the international order. Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright's Aftershocks is both a riveting journalistic account of one of the strangest years on record and a comprehensive analysis of the pandemic's ongoing impact on the foundational institutions and ideas that have shaped the modern world. This is the first crisis in decades without a glimmer of American leadership and it shows-there has been no international cooperation on a quintessential global challenge. Every country has followed its own path-nationalizing supplies, shutting their borders, and largely ignoring the rest of the world. The international order the United States constructed seven decades ago is in tatters, and the world is adrift. None of this came out of the blue. Public health experts and intelligence analysts had warned for a decade that a pandemic of this sort was inevitable. The crisis broke against a global backdrop of rising nationalism, backsliding democracy, declining public trust in governments, mounting rebellion against the inequalities produced by globalization, resurgent great power competition, and plummeting international cooperation. And yet, there are some signs of hope. The COVID-19 crisis reminds us of our common humanity and shared fate. The public has, for the most part, responded stoically and with kindness. Some democracies-South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, New Zealand, among others-have responded well. America may emerge from the crisis with a new resolve to deal with non-traditional threats, like pandemic disease, and a new demand for effective collective action with other democratic nations. America may also finally be forced to come to grips with our nation's inadequacies, and to make big changes at home and abroad that will set the stage for opportunities the rest of this century holds. But one thing is certain: America and the world will never be the same again"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book started with some of the happenings in the world after World War I when the Spanish Flu ravaged the world. From here, we read about the under-appreciated impact that the Spanish Flu had on the geopolitics of the times.
Then, Colin Kahl moved on to Covid-19 and the behavior of the various national leaders during the last years,
He ended the book with a recommendation on what should be done in the years to come.
It is, as much a book about leadership, as it is about Covid. A good book. ( )