This book seeks to identify the reasons why some countries were more efficient and effective than others in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, and why the global community failed to coalesce. What are the political determinants of the different state responses to the pandemic? Why was scientific advice rejected or ignored in many countries? What has been the role, respectively, of neoliberalism, populism, and authoritarianism in the making of Covid-19 policy? What role have each of these factors played in the uneven and clearly inadequate global response to the pandemic?

In an effort to understand why some states failed to handle the pandemic properly, some of the literature suggests that populism is at the root of the current failure of international co-operation. The global financial crisis of 2008-10 triggered significant cooperation within the G-20, led by the combined efforts of the United States and China. These forms of cooperation have clearly disappeared in the context of the pandemic, not only with respect to economic policy but also in public health and management. The authors of this volume link the different state responses to the pandemic-- from its inception to the start of the vaccination campaign, and to the political regimes prevailing in each. In particular, the present volume focuses on a distinction between the responses of neo-liberal regimes, populist regimes and authoritarian ones.

Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of European and International Studies at King's College London since 2014. She is the current editor of the Palgrave series: The Politics of Citizenship and Migration.

Alan Cafruny (Ph.D.) Cornell (1983) is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. He is a former series editor (with Herman Schwartz) of the series: Advances in International Political Economy, sponsored by the International PoliticalEconomy Section of the International Studies Association.

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Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Political Economy in the department of European and International Studies at King's College London since 2014. She is the author, among other titles, of: The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalisation era, (London: Palgrave 2021), The political Economy of Italy in the Euro (Palgrave 2017), The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration (Edward Elgar, 2014-2017); The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy(Palgrave, 2014), Dirty Cities: towards a political economy of shadow dynamics in global cities (Palgrave, 2013), European Political Economy(Ashgate: 2013), Globalization, Migration and the future of Europe (Routledge 2011), From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris, 2010). Alan Cafruny (Ph.D.) Cornell (1983) is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. He is the author of numerous books including Ruling the Waves: The Political Economy of International Shipping (Univ. of California Press 1987; 2020); Europe at Bay (Lynne Rienner, 2008, with Magnus Ryner) The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan, with Magnus Ryner, 2017). Most recently he has co-edited The Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo , 2017). He is a former series editor (with Herman Schwartz) of the series: Advances in International Political Economy, sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.