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The COVID-19 pandemic has already closed borders, battered the economy, overwhelmed critical health infrastructure, and killed thousands. 

In the longer run, the virus appears likely to leave lasting and potentially major effects on the global order itself: on the balance of power, the health of international institutions, and more.

It is a good time to start asking questions about COVID-19's impact on international affairs. How are the great powers competing for world recognition, and how are they exploiting each other’s weaknesses in this time of crisis? On the other hand, how might they cooperate to address the common threat to humanity? Finally, how might this crisis reshape geopolitical dynamics in the long run?

In this virtual edition of The World Today, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (retired), former National Security Advisor, will discuss these questions and more with Michael Horowitz, the Interim Director of Perry World House and Professor of Political Science.

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Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (Ret.) is a Perry World House Distinguished Visiting Fellow and the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He served as the 26th National Security Advisor of the United States from 2017-2018 and as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring in 2018. McMaster is author of the award-winning book, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. His new book Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World will be published later this month. McMaster was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, and he holds a Ph.D. in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.