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2020 was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most significant global pandemic since the 'Spanish flu' in 1918-1919. This book provides an analysis of the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of Commonwealth countries during 2020, covering public health, political, economic and international aspects.
List of contents
Introduction: COVID-19 in the Commonwealth 1. In, but not of, Africa: a divided South Africa faces COVID-19 2. Canada and COVID-19: the longer-term geopolitical implications 3. India’s domestic and foreign policy responses to COVID-19 4. COVID-19, Brexit and the United Kingdom – a year of uncertainty 5. COVID-19 in Nigeria 6. Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore: common threads, divergences, and lessons learned in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic 7. Impacts of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth Caribbean: key lessons 8. Australia and New Zealand: the pandemic Down Under 9. COVID-19 in the Pacific Island Commonwealth: microstates managing a macro-challenge 10. COVID-19 and tourism in Pacific SIDS: lessons from Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa? 11. COVID-19 and the British Overseas Territories: a comparative view
About the author
Derek McDougall specialises in Asia-Pacific international politics, with particular reference to Australian engagement. He is the author of Asia-Pacific in World Politics (2016). He is a frequent contributor to The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and serves on the journal’s international advisory board.
Suan Ee Ong has an academic background in political science and public health. She is a senior researcher and member of senior management at Research for Impact, a Singapore-based social, behavioural and health research organisation. She also holds honorary fellowships at the National University of Singapore’s School of Public Health and the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy in Malaysia.
Summary
2020 was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most significant global pandemic since the ‘Spanish flu’ in 1918-1919. This book provides an analysis of the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of Commonwealth countries during 2020, covering public health, political, economic and international aspects.
