COVID-19 and Foreign Aid

Viktor Jakupec is an Honorary Professor at Deakin University and the University of Potsdam. He is an international development aid consultant and a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften, Berlin.Max Kelly is Associate Professor of International and Community Development, and Research Associate at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University.Michael de Percy is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canberra. He was appointed to the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts in 2022.

"This edited collection provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aid within a context of the rules-based world order and the geo-political health crisis. In this volume, various political, social, and economic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are examined from diverse geo-political vantage points. This highly ground-breaking and timely volume is worthy to be read by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students in the fields of geopolitics, political economy, rules-based world order, and foreign aid."Prof. Dr. Christa Luft, Rector (i.R.) University of Economics, Berlin, Germany"Financial crises, pandemics, climate change, the growing risk of a nuclear conflagration, the growing assertiveness of China and Russia, and the new Cold War are accelerating the decline of the West’s confidence on the world stage. This will see traditional foreign aid and the model of global development that characterised the past 70 years disappear. To understand how this is happening, and how the foreign aid-global development nexus will unfold in coming years, this book is indispensable reading."Prof. Dr. Wim Naudé, University College Cork, Ireland"Global cooperation is seriously challenged when it is needed more than ever. This book considers the problem from all angles in a well-balanced intersecting manner. The deeply thought-provoking exploration is worth immersing oneself in."Dr. Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute

• Towards a post-COVID world order: A critical analysisViktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, and Michael de Percy International multilateralism in a non-hegemonic worldAndrey Kortunov COVID-19 and the decline of the neoliberal paradigm: On the erosion of hegemony in times of crisesTobias Debiel and Mathieu Rousselin The global dialectics of a pandemic: Between necropolitics and utopian imaginationNadja Meisterhans The rules-based world order and the notion of legitimacy crisis: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aidViktor Jakupec Pandemic shock and recession: The adequacy of anti-crisis measures and the role of development assistanceLeonid Grigoryev and Alexandra Morozkina COVAX, vaccine (inter)nationalism and the impact on the Global South experience of COVID-19Max Kelly and Mary Ana McGlasson Health emergency or economic crisis? Fail forward and de-risking opportunities in IMF COVID loans to EgyptLama Tawakkol Institutional exhaustion and foreign aid in the time of COVID-19Michael de Percy The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in sub-Saharan Africa: Geostrategic dynamics and challenges for developmentMatthias Rompel Economic and social prosperity in time of COVID-19 crisis in the European UnionAngeles Sánchez COVID-19 Impacts in Pacific Island Countries: Making an already bad situation worseMark McGillivray COVID-19 vaccines and global health diplomacy: Canada and France comparedStephen Brown and Morgane Rosier Strong capacity and high trust: Perceptions of crisis management and increased nationalism among Chinese civil servantsQun Cui, Lisheng Dong, and Tom Christensen China’s inward- and outward-facing identities: Post-COVID challenges for China and the international rules-based orderYan Bennett Soft power and the politics of foreign aid: The case of VenezuelaAnthea McCarthy-Jones Nationalist politics, anti-vaccination and the limits of the rules-based world order in an era of pandemics: The case of TanzaniaJaphace Poncian COVID-19 crisis and the world (re-)orderMax Kelly, Viktor Jakupec, and Michael de Percy