Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

Kahl and Wright trace how COVID-19 exposed and accelerated the collapse of the post-WWII international order, showing how nationalist politics, U.S.-China rivalry, and failed multilateral institutions turned a public health crisis into a cascade of geopolitical, economic, and democratic catastrophes. The book concludes with a strategic framework for how democracies must reorganize to survive in the post-pandemic era.