Trump is absent from international co-operation, disinclined to work with economic competitors, including ChinaSo how will the coronavirus crisis affect the international order? The Indian international relations theorist Amitav Acharya examines the end of the American world order in his book with that title. Recent global power shifts have put paid to the hegemonic and hypocritically western vision dominated in fact by the US and Europe. This world is fundamentally challenged by the coronavirus crisis, whose speed of spread is completely new. Tackling its effects on international order overlaps with how it disrupts or reverses private capitalist globalisation by pushing it in a more public and statist direction.

Source: The Irish Times April 11, 2020 03:56 UTC