The Mena Region And COVID-19 Impact Implications And Prospects | Middle Eastern Studies

Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a geographic focus on the MENA region the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus’s impact patterns are a question of two variables: governance performance and socioeconomic potency. Given the global unprecedented complex and systemic nature of COVID-19 – and its long-term implications for societies governments international organisations citizens and corporations – this volume entails a relevance to regions undergoing similar dynamics. Analyses in the book therefore have implications for the comparative study of the pandemic and its impact on societies around the globe. Understanding related dynamics and implications and making use of lessons learned are a pathway to deal with future similar crises. Questions covered in the volume are relevant to geopolitics social implications and the relations between political leaders and citizens as beings embedded in various strategies of communication. The volume will appeal to scholars of international politics political science risk or crisis governance economics and sociology human rights and security political communication and public health. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 licence. |The MENA Region and COVID-19 Impact Implications and Prospects | Middle Eastern Studies