The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions
while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic however go much
further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As
Henry Kissinger warned The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order. What will
be the consequences of the pandemic and what will a post-COVID world order look like? No
institution is better suited to address these issues than Johns Hopkins University which has
convened experts from within and outside of the university to discuss world order after
COVID-19. In a series of essays international experts in public health and medicine economics
international security technology ethics democracy and governance imagine a bold new vision
for our future. Essayists include: Graham Allison Anne Applebaum Philip Bobbitt Hal Brands
Elizabeth Economy Jessica Fanzo Henry Farrell Peter Feaver Niall Ferguson Christine Fox
Jeremy A. Greene Hahrie Han Kathleen H. Hicks William Inboden Tom Inglesby Jeffrey P. Kahn
John Lipsky Margaret MacMillan Anna C. Mastroianni Lainie Rutkow Kori Schake Eric Schmidt
Thayer Scott Benn Steil Janice Gross Stein James B. Steinberg Johannes Urpelainen Dora
Vargha Sridhar Venkatapuram and Thomas Wright. In collaboration with and appreciation of the
book's co-editors Professors Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin of the Johns Hopkins SAIS Henry
A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to donate
funds to the Maryland Food Bank in support of the university's food distribution efforts in
East Baltimore during this period of food insecurity due to COVID-19 pandemic hardships.
