The New Parasitic Leviathan

The New Parasitic Leviathan
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Tara McCormack
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Commentary

In March 2020, Britain embarked on a novel and experimental policy in order to respond to a pandemic respiratory virus. This was the policy that was dubbed lockdown, a collection of measures consisting of unprecedented interventions to radically reduce the number of daily contacts that people had.

Tara McCormack
Tara McCormack
Author
Tara McCormack is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester, and focuses on security, foreign policy, legitimacy, and authority. Her last monograph was “Britain’s War Powers: the Fall and Rise of Executive Authority” (Palgrave).
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