We are all facing a stark choice: either unite against new challenges or become hostage to the various extremists and adventurers
We could rest assured that COVID-19 will be defeated, sooner rather than later. The excessive angst and fear we currently feel will gradually subside, while our science will find effective antidotes so that people could look back on the pandemic years as a ghastly dream.
At the ...
... low effectiveness of multilateralism were true, the United States under Donald Trump should have been able to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic far better than the European Union. In reality, however, as of early August, the United States had over three ... ... uniting humankind to solve common problems, that is most adequate to the international realities in the era of globalization.
Global Governance Dilemmas
As we have noted above, the history of the first 20 years of the 21
st
century clearly demonstrates ...
... States, the inevitable social backlash was anticipated in previous
studies
of mine. It will spread worldwide as economies wilt. COVID-19 has merely acted as an accelerant — and not the cause — of our foundering global economy. Even fears over a "
... ... Reset" anticipated by the World Economic Forum (WEF) seems as certain as its myriad failed forecasts and panaceas. The "global governance" it desperately touts smacks of a Soviet Union with a Techno-Potemkin facade. Many who had lived behind ...
... also called for an end to all wars so that we can pool our efforts to combat the pandemic. The Saudi Arabia–led Arab coalition has already announced a suspension of its military operation against the Houthis in Yemen to “combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic” there. Israel and Hamas have begun negotiations on a prisoner swap.
These developments show that many are already recognizing that the coronavirus, as Guterres said, is “our common enemy.” And we can confidently assert that there ...
... opportunities.
One gets the impression that the main reason behind the Security Council’s silence is the fierce information war that is taking place between Washington and Beijing.
According to the American side, any Security Council resolution on COVID-19 should be worded in such a way that the main blame for the outbreak is placed squarely on the shoulders of China and should also punish Beijing for trying to conceal the full scale of the problem from the international community. China, for its ...
... many international organizations and public administration mechanisms in individual countries. This test is far from complete since the peak of the pandemic is still far away, and the repercussions of the global spread of 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) have yet to be assessed. Nevertheless, some preliminary conclusions can already be made. Unfortunately, these findings are disappointing.
Most experts, journalists and politicians focus on the economic and financial impact of the pandemic. How ...