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The book is open access and free to read from today through LSE Press, the School's publisher of high-quality, open access research in the social sciences.Long before the emergence of the modern state system, violence and war were…

COVID-19 presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life. But its impact was highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and…