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2022 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Introduction
verfasst von : Caroline Varin
Erschienen in: Global Security in Times of Covid-19
Abstract
The introductory chapter to Global Security in Times of COVID: Brave New World? assesses the impact of the disease and the reaction of governments in the first 18 months of the pandemic. It highlights the major security threats that resulted from securitising the virus. These include a rise in violent non-state actors and civil unrest where states were unable to manage the crisis and address their citizens’ concerns; disruptions in the international system of states, characterised by a failure of leadership and cooperation regionally and globally; and the retreat of democracy and hard-earned rights defined as human security, most notably in the global South.