Pandemic Politics: COVID-19 and grand strategy
By Emma Campbell-Mohn and Suzanne Freeman
As the world attempts to cope with and contain the COVID-19 pandemic, policy-makers and citizens alike are questioning the role of the state, its goals and the tools it uses. Lockdowns, overtaxed health care systems, mass unemployment, increasing mental health crises and supply chain disruptions plague the global system. Citizens wonder whether we will see a change in how states conduct themselves after the pandemic, both internationally and domestically. Will the fundamental objectives and means of the state change? Or has COVID-19 merely exacerbated existing trends?