COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed vast numbers of people, devastated the world economy, and threatened the fabric of politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, “The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order.” What will a post-COVID-19 world order look like? No institution is better suited to address these issues than Johns Hopkins University, which has convened leading experts from within and outside of the university in public health and medicine, economics, international security, technology, ethics, democracy, and governance.

Praise for “COVID-19 and World Order”

“Brands and Gavin have assembled an all-star cast of writers to peer into the future of world order after COVID-19—what it means for US-China relations, American grand strategy, technological innovation and competition, global public health, and many other subjects. If you want to know how the world will change—and how it won’t—after COVID, you cannot afford to miss this book. It is a must-read.”

—Stephen J. Hadley, former national security advisor to President George W. Bush

“The post-COVID world will raise profound challenges for policy makers in Washington and around the world. This outstanding volume brings together insights from visionary thinkers from a broad range of disciplines to help us navigate this uncharted territory.”

—Amb. Susan E. Rice, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama

“The COVID-19 crisis has made it clear that the international order has reached a historic inflection point. This book provides an excellent tour d’horizon of current and future global challenges, as well as thoughtful debates about how the United States can navigate an increasingly complex world.”

—Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden

“COVID-19 attacked the world at a time when the international system was already under great stress. This volume brings together the best minds, from across disciplines, to understand why the world was fracturing before COVID and how we might construct a more effective and just world order after COVID. An essential read.”

—Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot Professor at Harvard University and former Treasury secretary of the United States