Part II. Introduction : Explaining pandemic response / Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, and Elize Massard da Fonseca --
Playing politics : the World Health Organization's response to COVID-19 / Matthew M. Kavanagh, Renu Singh, and Mara Pillinger --
State responses to the COVID-19 pandemic : governance, surveillance, coercion, and social policy / Holly Jarman --
Part II : Asia. China's Leninist response to COVID-19 : from information repression to total mobilization / Victor C. Shih --
Public policy and learning from SARS : explaining COVID-19 in Hong Kong / John P. Burns --
Institutions matter in fighting COVID-19 : public health, social policies, and the control tower in South Korea / June Park --
Unified, preventive, low-cost government response to COVID-19 in Vietnam / Emma Willoughby --
Fighting COVID-19 in Japan : a success story? / Takashi Nagata, Akihito Hagihara, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Ryozo Matsuda, and Monika Steffen --
Singapore's response to COVID-19 : an explosion of cases despite being a "gold standard" / Rebecca Wai --
India's response to COVID-19 / Minakshi Raj --
COVID-19 response in Central Asia : a cautionary tale / Pauline Jones and Elizabeth J. King --
Part III : Europe. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom : how austerity and a loss of state capacity undermined the crisis response / Gemma A. Williams, Selina Rajan, and Jonathan D. Cylus --
The European Union confronts COVID-19 : another European rescue of the nation-state? / Eleanor Brooks, Anniek de Ruijter, and Scott L. Greer --
Denmark's response to COVID-19 : a participatory approach to policy innovation / Darius Ornston --
France's multidimensional COVID-19 response : ad hoc committees and the sidelining of public health agencies / Sarah D. Rozenblum --
Political resonance in Austria's coronavirus crisis management / Margitta Mätzke --
Three approaches to handling the COVID crisis in federal countries : Germany, Austria, and Switzerland / Thomas Czypionka and Miriam Reiss --
Italy's response to COVID-19 / Michelle Falkenbach and Manuela Caiani --
Spain's response to COVID-19 / Kenneth A. Dubin --
A tale of two pandemics in three countries : Portugal, Spain, and Italy / André Peralta-Santos, Luis Saboga-Nunes, and Pedro C. Magalhães --
Greece at the time of COVID-19 : caught between Scylla and Charybdis / Elena Petelos, Dimitra Lingri, and Christos Lionis --
COVID-19 in Turkey : public health centralism / Saime Özçürümez --
COVID-19 in central and eastern Europe : focus on Czechia, Hungary, and Bulgaria / Olga Löblová, Julia Rone, and Endre Borbáth --
COVID-19 in the Russian Federation : government control during the epidemic / Elizabeth J. King and Victoria I. Dudina --
Part IV : Americas. The politics and policy of Canada's COVID-19 response / Patrick Fafard, Adèle Cassola, Margaret Macaulay, and Michèle Palkovitz --
Anatomy of a failure : COVID-19 in the United States / Phillip M. Singer, Charley E. Willison, N'dea Moore-Petinak, and Scott L. Greer --
COVID-19 in Brazil : presidential denialism and the subnational government's response / Elize Massard da Fonseca, Nicoli Nattrass, Luísa Bolaffi Arantes, and Francisco Inácio Bastos --
Colombia's response to COVID-19 : pragmatic command, social contention, and political challenges / Claudia Acosta, Mónica Uribe-Gómez, and Durfari Velandia-Naranjo --
The politics of the COVID-19 pandemic response in Chile / Claudio A. Méndez --
Part V : Africa. Pandemic amid political crisis : Malawi's experience with and response to COVID-19 / Kim Yi Dionne, Boniface Dulani, and Sara E. Fischer --
Adapting COVID-19 containment in Africa : lessons from Tanzania / Thespina (Nina) Yamanis, Ruth Carlitz, and Henry A. Mollel --
Confronting legacies and charting a new course? : the politics of coronavirus response in South Africa / Joseph Harris --
Comparative analysis of COVID-19 transmission and mortality in select African countries / Kanayo K. Ogujiuba and Uviwe Binase --
Conclusion / Scott L. Greer, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and Elizabeth J. King.