Online Published on 20 January, 2023.
This paper analyses the impact of COVID-19 on the liberal international order (LIO). While doing so, it underscores that the challenges to it have been posed by the exogenous forces in the form of the revisionist states and endogenous factors like President Donald Trump’s leadership style. Considering the COVID-19 as an intervening variable between the liberal international order and exogenous and endogenous forces, 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 to the existing system. 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 post-COVID-19 era.
