"A major crisis is happening in the world today. It all started in December 2019, when an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

"This book illustrates the use of strategy by national and international groups using fictional case studies. The cases are fictional in the sense that the information provided was not collected using the methodology used for previous case studies about states or groups of states. Instead, the...

Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries : what are the lessons for other countries? / Vladimir Popov -- A theory of why potentially favourable political and economic changes may lead to mortality crises / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- Mortality crises in high-income countries :...