The human toll -- Deep economic scars -- Effects on society -- Political repercussions -- Epidemics and armed conflict -- Post-pandemic terrorism -- The pandemic and bioterrorism -- Looking ahead -- Dramatis pestilentiae.
In a concise, authoritative, and gripping telling, Brian Michael Jenkins--one of our leading authorities on national security and an advisor to governments, presidents and CEOs--provides a masterly account of what kind of future the planet might be facing...by looking at the world's long history of epidemics and discerning what was common about their aftermath