COVID-19 and Foreign Aid

Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order

Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, Michael de Percy, Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, Michael de Percy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032227146
• eBook ISBN: 9781000787436
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy, or coherence.

Drawing on the expertise of key scholars from around the world in the fields of international development, political science, socioeconomics, history, and international relations, the book explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on development aid within an environment of shifting national and regional priorities and interactions. The response is specifically focused on the interrelated themes of political analysis and soft power, the legitimation crisis, poverty, inequality, foreign aid, and the disruption and re-making of the world order. The book argues that complex and multidirectional linkages between politics, economics, society, and the environment are driving changes in the extant development aid system. COVID-19 and Foreign Aid provides a range of critical reflections to shifts in the world order, the rise of nationalism, the strange non-death of neoliberalism, shifts in globalisation, and the evolving impact of COVID as a cross-cutting crisis in the development aid system.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the field of health and development studies, decision-makers at government level as well as to those working in or consulting to international aid institutions, regional and bilateral aid agencies, and non-governmental organisations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Endorsement Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• 1 Towards a post-COVID world order: a critical analysis
• 2 International multilateralism in a non-hegemonic world
• 3 COVID-19 and the decline of the neoliberal paradigm: on the erosion of hegemony in times of crises
• 4 The global dialectics of a pandemic: between necropolitics and utopian imagination
• 5 The rules-based world order and the notion of legitimacy crisis: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aid
• 6 Pandemic shock and recession: The adequacy of anti-crisis measures and the role of development assistance
• 7 COVAX, vaccine (inter)nationalism and the impact on the Global South experience of COVID-19
• 8 Health emergency or economic crisis? Fail forward and de-risking opportunities in IMF COVID loans to Egypt
• 9 Institutional exhaustion and foreign aid in the time of COVID-19
• 10 The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in sub-Saharan Africa: Geostrategic dynamics and challenges for development
• 11 Economic and social prosperity in time of COVID-19 crisis in the European Union
• 12 COVID-19 impacts on Pacific Island Countries: Making an already bad situation worse
• 13 COVID-19 vaccines and global health diplomacy: Canada and France compared
• 14 Strong capacity and high trust: Perceptions of crisis management and increased nationalism among Chinese civil servants
• 15 China’s inward- and outward-facing identities: Post-COVID challenges for China and the international rules-based order
• 16 Soft power and the politics of foreign aid: The case of Venezuela
• 17 Nationalist politics, anti-vaccination and the limits of the rules-based world order in an era of pandemics: The case of Tanzania
• 18 COVID-19 crisis and the world (re-)order
• Index