Table Of ContentCOVID-19 AND FOREIGN AID
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, legit-
imacy, 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 pan-
demic 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.
Viktor Jakupec is an Honorary Professor at Deakin University and the Univer-
sity 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 Devel-
opment, 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.
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“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 con-
flagration, 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 intersect-
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COVID-19 AND
FOREIGN AID
Nationalism and Global
Development in a New World Order
Edited by
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, and
Michael de Percy
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Names: Jakupec, Viktor, 1945- editor.
Title: Covid-19 and foreign aid : nationalism and global development in a new
world order / edited by Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly and Michael de Percy.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Rethinking
development | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2022025505 (print) | LCCN 2022025506 (ebook) | ISBN
9781032227146 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032227115 (paperback) | ISBN
9781003273844 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic assistance—Social aspects. | Economic assistance—
Political aspects. | COVID-19 (Disease)—Social aspects. | Nationalism.
Classification: LCC HC60 .C6668 2023 (print) | LCC HC60 (ebook) | DDC
362.1962/4144—dc23/eng/20220826
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003273844
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CONTENTS
List of figures xiii
List of tables xv
List of contributors xvii
1 Towards a post-COVID world order: A critical analysis 1
Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly, and Michael de Percy
2 International multilateralism in a non-hegemonic world 19
Andrey Kortunov
3 COVID-19 and the decline of the neoliberal paradigm: On
the erosion of hegemony in times of crises 37
Tobias Debiel and Mathieu Rousselin
4 The global dialectics of a pandemic: Between necropolitics
and utopian imagination 56
Nadja Meisterhans
5 The rules-based world order and the notion of legitimacy
crisis: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aid 76
Viktor Jakupec
