Why COVID-19 is shifting our world?

Abstract

The reality of the pandemics already disrupted health systems, economies, social orders and political systems in a very limited amount of time. Even if the end of the pandemics is an unchatered territory, the discussion about its consequences is under way. One important question that has been raised is if it was really a „black swan”, but the author that use this paradigm, Nassim Taleb dismissed that idea by writing arguments for COVID - 19 predictability. Jacques Attali discussed the consequences of the pandemics on the global system and especially on the current view of economy based on global trade and not relying on stocks. Yuval Noah Harari, after strongly rejected pandemics as security current threats in hids previous books, has changed his mind and offers arguments why COVID - 19 is shifting our world. Giorgio Agamben has used the opportunity offered by confinment rules in order to assess his main ideas about the relationship between biosafety and politics. The reactions to Agamben’s perspective made by Slavoj Žižek (a critique from the left side), Jean - Luc Nancy and Lukas van den Berge proved that his theoretical framework deserves careful analysis and many interesting arguments can be raised. John Gray and Pierre Manent have published relevant contributions about the consequences of the pandemics. Edward Luttwak have used its own strategy perspective in dealing with this issue, while politicianns were tempted to offer explanations and solutions beyond their daily policy-mkaing routine (Josep Borrell). All these contributions were not analyzed as a whole and from a comparative perspective. Some fundamental questions are at stake in all these views: the protective functions of the state will be discharged by supranational projects like the EU or we will witness more arguments for a strong state? Will the nation idea that is abandoned, discredited and delegitimzed in the recent decades rise up again, as states want to rebuild their own national production capacity, in order to not be dependent on delocatizations all over the world? Some states have suspended human rights, others found different solutions to fight with the pandemics - what solution had more positive effects in terms of public health and are these solutions the result of every political culture versions? Liberalism have promoted and could be accomodated with just one - side version of extreme globalization or it can adapt to a change of the current reality ? It is very important that these contributions started the discussion but there is no structural framework so far in order to have the whole picture. The purpose of this paper is to summarize these contributions and then to underline the most important challenges we are confronted with in order to change the meaning of some well established concepts of political science.

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