Understanding COVID-19: Geopolitics

COVID-19 has adjusted global risk perceptions and ignited significant geopolitical change around the world. This list aims to analyse the effects of the pandemic from multiple geopolitical perspectives to provide greater clarity in understanding the prevailing status quo and the trajectory of international relations.

Global Geopolitics:

• Analysing Great Power competition, Micro-geopolitics and meta-geopolitics in understanding COVID-19’s impact on international politics (Institut Montaigne): https://tinyurl.com/w3ycaco

• American exceptionalism in the age of COVID-19: https://tinyurl.com/ybz2xrjj

• A comprehensive overview that forecasts COVID-19’s impact on Australia and the world (ASPI): https://tinyurl.com/yaq29tz2

• 12 papers on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for global governance (ETH Zurich): https://tinyurl.com/y7tt7ecu

• Addressing risk perception through the lens of politics throughout COVID-19 (Becker Friedman Institute): https://tinyurl.com/y8gdqanx

• Addresses the evolution and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean): https://tinyurl.com/y7v6aspl

Alliances & Defence

• 7 papers discussing NATO in the Age of Pandemics (ETH Zurich): https://tinyurl.com/y8j82kgn

• Analyses of the opportunities for terrorist groups to operate in the current environment: https://tinyurl.com/y6wtndl4

• Analysing Covid-19 and conflict in the Middle East: https://tinyurl.com/y862nrs2

• Italian Airforce General Stefano Cont, addressing the prevailing multipolar system and evaluating European defence in the post-COVID world: (pt. 1) https://tinyurl.com/y83hk8ua, (pt. 2) https://tinyurl.com/y9yk8vcf

• Analysing disinformation and social media manipulation during the global pandemic (ASPI): https://tinyurl.com/yap9ck4g

International Health Security

• An overview of the health security threat spectrum that traces perceptions of biological and health security threats over the last century: https://tinyurl.com/ya65zqla

• A 20-minute podcast addressing COVID-19’s effect on health security, the global economy, and international politics (CSIS): https://tinyurl.com/y9s5wupv

This one one in a series of three guides exploring the implications of the pandemic on a number of key security and risk issues.