COVID-19

Covid-19’s Impact on Global Health

Mukesh Kapila • Apr 14 2022 • Student Features

The gaps and divisions created by the Covid-19 pandemic have profoundly affected international relations because everything about the origins and spread of the novel coronavirus has been contentious.

Global Health

Mukesh Kapila • Apr 12 2022 • Online resources

The idea of global health connects an individual’s private concern over their own well-being to the shared necessity to secure the health of everyone, everywhere.

Opinion – A Daunting Agenda for France’s EU Presidency

Alexander Brotman • Jan 9 2022 • Articles

Often presented as a grand strategist with outsized, grandiose ambitions, Macron’s greatest challenge may be in just containing Europe rather than expanding its powers and capabilities.

Opinion – Omicron and Navigating the New Normal with Covid-19

Alexander Brotman • Dec 24 2021 • Articles

The course of the pandemic is now a policy choice that can either be prolonged by entrenched vaccine nationalism or shortened by a focus on the collective global goodwill.

Opinion – Is International Politics Damaging South Africa’s Health?

Martin Duffy • Dec 10 2021 • Articles

It may seem good politics to play to home electorates by pulling up the drawbridge, but the economic effects are already being felt in one of the financially most unequal countries in the world.

Review – Global Reboot

Katharina Kuhn • Nov 11 2021 • Features

This podcast from Foreign Policy should inspire listeners to think big, despite its largely abstract and Western centric approach to tackling global challenges in a post-pandemic world.

Interview – Samuel Ritholtz

E-International Relations • Nov 4 2021 • Features

Samuel Ritholtz discusses queer kinship and the rights of refugee families, the impact of Covid-19 on trans and queer people and the role of queer IR in efforts to decolonise the discipline.

The International Political Economy of Health: The Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution

Mohid Iftikhar • Sep 14 2021 • Articles

For global cooperation on common threats, the complex composition of regional-multipolar systems must be considered as rising and regional powers compete for resources.

The Appeals and the Limits of Digital Education in the Post-Covid Era

Sirvan Karimi • Jul 28 2021 • Articles

Contrary to the views of its exponents, online teaching neither reduces educational costs nor enhances the learning capacity of students.

Interview – Hurricane Kimchi and Ali Zahoor

E-International Relations • Jul 9 2021 • Features

Hurricane Kimchi and Ali Zahoor talk LGBTQ+ activism and drag art in South Korea and internationally.

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