The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

By John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge argue that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of Western governments and set out the reforms needed to make the state work better.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is "The Wake Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West and How to Fix It" by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. As someone who has written a big book on what the world will look like after COVID, I probably shouldn't recommend somebody else's book, but I'm going to do it anyway. This is really a superb examination of the political and economic changes that should be ushered in by the pandemic.”