Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Western Model of Liberal Democracies and the Need for Authority -- Chapter 3. The Resurgence of the Nation-State and the Future of Globalization -- Chapter 4. On the Risk of a Thucydides’s Trap.

This book tries to understand the lessons we ought to learn from the Covid-19 crisis as well as the profound transformations this pandemic will bring to the world order. These essays explore the challenge that the pandemic poses to liberalism, the unique potential this crisis offers us to retake control over globalization, and how it foreshadows future conflicts, especially the dynamic between China and the West. This timely book will be of interest to scholars in Political Science and Philosophy, as well as to general readers interested in what the post Covid-19 world may resemble. Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.