Did the COVID19 Pandemic End the ‘Long Twentieth Century’?
Ayşe Zarakol
Reader in International Relations and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West
Essay Symposium
The Global Governance in the Age of COVID project has convened leading professionals in history, law, politics, and global affairs to discuss what the COVID-19 crisis is revealing about our lives and institutions. The essays that follow represent a diverse snapshot of views that aim to make sense of our current condition and its relation to the past and the future. They are a complement to the webinars hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies in the autumn of 2020.
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Pandemic Politics, Law, and the Re-Negotiation of the Human Right to Health
Anna Holzscheiter
Professor of International Politics, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden)
Head, Governance for Global Health Research Group, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Global Health Governance by Information: Confronting the Costs of Cooperation
Jacob Katz Cogan
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Deputy Editor, Human Rights Quarterly
COVID19 and UN Peacekeeping: Posing Existing Global Governance Questions with New Urgency
Katharina P. Coleman
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Author, International Organisations and Peace Enforcement
COVID-19, International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals
Ian Johnstone
Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Author, The Power of Deliberation: International Law, Politics and Organizations
COVID-19, Democracy, and Global Governance: Using Convening Power to Build Back Better
Catherine Hecht
Former Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
