Pandemic may set off a change in the decrepit global architecture
Perhaps a reformed UN will result from a shared emotional experience that cuts across ideology and region
Contrary to expectations, the post-Cold War world has become a more violent, more dangerous and more unpredictable place. Western dominance of world affairs is inexorably moving to an end, and with it the present liberal global peace architecture is foundering. At this critical time a totally unprepared world fell victim to the deadly coronavirus pandemic, an invisible enemy that respects neither national borders nor ideology.
Reflecting the deepening faultlines in international society, this new threat was met with a chaotic response, even “upmanship”, as leading nations competed aggressively with one another to discover a vaccine that would be honoured as “the saviour of mankind” and regarded as “one of the greatest scientific and humanitarian accomplishments in history”...
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