ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a political critique and sociological analysis of the international political response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The power of the world market and of corporate capital to shape national and international politics is rarely questioned in the contemporary social sciences, owing to the near-hegemony of globalization theory. The problems raised by the pandemic have challenged the postnational claim, which argues that membership is transcending national borders to become global and that international human rights norms guarantee individual rights all around the world. Governments the world over knew that the risk of a major global pandemic was a real and growing one. The present global organization of politics as interstate competition and imperial rivalries discussed in this book serve the goals of the world capitalist economy.
