Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2020
Journal: Australian Journal of Politics & History
Year: 2020

The coronavirus outbreak was a dramatic foreign policy game-changer in the first half of 2020. While alarm bells started to ring in January, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March. The animal pathogen introduced into the human world created an abrupt series of international security shockwaves that tested community resilience and compounded situations of uncertainty and division in a more multi-polar world order. Australia was not immune