Alan W. Cafruny & Leila Simona Talani 
The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19 [PDF ebook] 

Introduction: The Political Economy Of The Covid-19 Crisis:  Neo-Liberalism, Populism And Autocracy.- Part 1: Neo-Liberal States.- Chapter 1: Populism, Neoliberalism, And The Pandemic: The Tragedy Of U.S. Policy.- Chapter 2: Risk, Responsibilisation And The Political Economy Of The Pandemic In The Uk.- Chapter 3: The Covid-19 Crisis: Global Competitive (Geo)Politics, Labour Regimes And The Case Of Greece.- Chapter 4: An Exceptional Case: Sweden And The Pandemic.- Part 2: Populist States.- Chapter 5: The Pandemic Politics Of The Bolsonaro Government In Brazil: Covid-19 Denial, The Chloroquine Economy And High Death Rates.- Of Poverty, Salaries, And Hunger.-Chapter 6: The Political Economy Of Pandemic Management In India.- Chapter 7: A Tale Of Two Crises. The Impact Of Eu Response To The Pandemic: The Case Of Italy.- Part 3: Authoritarian States.- Chapter 8: Authoritarian Crisis Response To Covid-19 In China.- Chapter 9: Health And Vaccine Diplomacy In Russia’s Foreign Policy.- Part 4: Global Inequality.- Chapter 10: Covid-19 And Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradoxes And Very Tentative Conclusions On The Pandemic.- Chapter 11: Conversation On Precarity. The Mutation Of The Virus Into A Public Health Risk On Equity.- Chapter 12: Pandemic Co-Pathogenesis: From The Vectors To The Variants Of Neoliberal Disease.

Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Political Economy in the department of European and International Studies at King’s College London since 2014. She is the author, among other titles,  of:
The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalisation era, (London: Palgrave 2021), The political Economy of Italy in the Euro (Palgrave 2017),
The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration (Edward Elgar, 2014-2017); 
The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy(Palgrave, 2014),  
Dirty Cities: towards a political economy of shadow dynamics in global cities (Palgrave, 2013),  
European Political Economy(Ashgate: 2013),  Globalization,
Migration and the future of Europe (Routledge 2011),  From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris, 2010).

Alan Cafruny (Ph.D.) Cornell (1983) is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. He is the author of numerous books including
Ruling the Waves: The Political Economy of International Shipping (Univ. of California Press 1987; 2020);
Europe at Bay (Lynne Rienner, 2008, with Magnus Ryner)
The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis (Palgrave Mac Millan, with Magnus Ryner, 2017).  Most recently he has co-edited The
Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (Palgrave Mac Millan, Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo , 2017).  He is a former series editor (with Herman Schwartz) of the series:  
Advances in International Political Economy,  sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.