"Geopolitics after the pandemic" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Oct 2020 4:47 p.m. PST |
"There is no single future until it happens, and any effort to envision geopolitics in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic must include a range of possible futures. I suggest five plausible futures in 2030, but obviously others can be imagined. The end of the globalised liberal order. The world order established by the United States after World War II created a framework of institutions that led to a remarkable liberalisation of international trade and finance. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, this order was being challenged by the rise of China and the growth of populism in Western democracies. China has benefited from the order, but as its strategic weight grows, it increasingly insists on setting standards and rules. The US resists, institutions atrophy and appeals to sovereignty increase. The US remains outside the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement. Covid-19 contributes to the probability of this scenario by weakening the US ‘system manager'…"
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| USAFpilot | 09 Oct 2020 9:27 a.m. PST |
How does Covid-19 compare to the Spanish flu of a hundred years ago? How did the Spanish flu effect geopolitics after the pandemic? Hmmm. |
 Legion 4   | 09 Oct 2020 9:31 a.m. PST |
That is a good question. What did we do different back then after the Spanish flu was over ? |
| arealdeadone | 12 Oct 2020 4:05 p.m. PST |
Spanish Flu started during WWI so it's different to separate the impact of the flu and WWI. No doubt WWI and its end had a much bigger impact – rise of USA, destruction of Germany as a power, facilitating entrenchment of Bolsheviks in Russia, break up Austro-Hungarians and Ottoman empires etc etc.
I think this article does a better job of explaining what COVID is doing to the world.
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