Reinscribing global hierarchies: COVID–19, racial capitalism and the liberal international order.
The COVID–19 pandemic led to debates within International Relations (IR) as to the extent to which it would cause a rupture in the so-called liberal international order (LIO). This article is concerned with why such a rupture did not occur and draws on theories of racial capitalism to answer this qu...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 99; no. 4; pp. 1673 - 1692 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2023
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