COVID-19 and World Order
Hal Brands
Abstract
The contributors to this book offer an array of bracing answers that will certainly be of great interest and use to policy makers who are implementing new mea sures to confront this crisis, to the students who are returning to classrooms or attending seminars virtually, and to faculty who are teaching the next generation about and in the midst of COVID-19. This global pandemic is, in so many ways, unpre ce dented in our lifetimes, and it will require unpre ce dented solutions that will profoundly reshape our world. Yet the tools for arriving at these solutions are the same as they have ever been: free inquiry, critical thought, and the passionate contestation of ideas tempered always by reason. It is my sincere hope that this robust and timely collection will inspire more of all three as we advancesteadily and slowly-into a post-COVID world.