Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: COVID-19 and Beyond

Abstract This collection of essays seeks to theorize the politics COVID-19 pandemic in international relations (IR). The contributions are driven by questions such as: How can theorizing help us understand these unsettled times? What kind crisis is this? shapes its politics? remains same and what has been or unsettling? In addressing questions, each participants considers we may already know about as well might be ignored missed. Collectively, forum pushes at interdisciplinary boundaries IR itself and, so doing, hope engender meaningful understandings a world encourage expansive ways thinking times that lie beyond.