{"id":1626,"date":"2020-04-02T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:04:38","slug":"school-of-politics-and-ir-in-the-news-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/04\/02\/school-of-politics-and-ir-in-the-news-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Politics and IR in the news: COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A round-up of commentary on COVID-19 from academics within the School of Politics and International Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The only lasting antidote to pandemics is a stronger civic society&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>argues Professor Adrian Pabst in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/economy\/2020\/03\/only-lasting-antidote-pandemics-stronger-civic-society\"><strong>New Statesman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ben Seyd points to &#8216;<strong>trust in political figures is at a low just as they need citizens to act on their advice&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-trust-in-political-figures-is-at-a-low-just-as-they-need-citizens-to-act-on-their-advice-133284\"><strong>The Conversation.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Rubrick Biegon is quoted on Trump&#8217;s rhetoric on COVID-19 and China in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3077350\/donald-trump-zigs-zags-and-zigs-again-china-and-coronavirus\"><strong>South China Morning Post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of commentary on COVID-19 from academics within the School of Politics and International Relations. &#8216;The only lasting antidote to pandemics is a stronger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/04\/02\/school-of-politics-and-ir-in-the-news-covid-19\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54814,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}