The COVID-19 and its Impact on Liberal International Order

Abstract

This paper analyses the impact of COVID-19 on the liberal international order. While doing so, it underscores that the challenges to the liberal international order have been posed by the exogenous forces in the form of the revisionist states and endogenous forces like President Donald Trump’s leadership style. Considering the COVID-19 as an intervening variable between the liberal international order and exogenous and forces endogenous, it argues that as a catalyst the COVID-19 is stimulating both the exogenous and endogenous factors in such a way that they are proving detrimental for the liberal international order. It concludes with an observation that instead of dismantling the foundations of the liberal international order, the revisionist states, especially China, will try to extend and strengthen their leadership role in the institutional foundation of the liberal international order in the post-COVID-19 era.