Perkembangan robotika dan kecerdasan buatan memicu Revolusi Industri Keempat yang menggeser tatanan sosial dan hubungan interpersonal. Di sekolah, dunia kerja, bahkan di dalam kehidupan sehari-hari manusia tidak dapat lepas dari teknologi. Pemakaian gawai menjadi umum, bahkan cenderung didorong agar tidak tertinggal dengan informasi yang terus muncul. Negara dan individu sama-sama mencari cara untuk tetap relevan di dunia yang semakin menghilangkan sekat-sekat dan serba instan serta otomatis. Pada 2016, World Economic Forum (WEF) mencanangkan istilah Revolusi Industri Keempat untuk menandai perubahan besar-besaran dalam cara manusia hidup. Bentuk komunikasi dan interaksi sosial mulai banyak dibantu oleh alat, seperti smartphone dan proyektor. Di tengah integrasi robot dan kecerdasan buatan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, buruh kasar mengalami dampak signifikan. Kelas buruh harus mampu mengembangkan kreativitas dan komunikasi manusia (human communication) agar tidak tergerus arus perubahan Revolusi Industri Keempat. Tidak ada aktor yang benar-benar siap dengan Revolusi Industri Keempat. Peningkatan kemampuan manusia merupakan tugas individu dan masyrakat agar dapat bertahan dan berkembang di dunia yang berubah.

This paper is aimed to find the potential trends of the protectionism of countries and their independence on global economic chains in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Securitization is a state action to increase the status of an issue into an existential threat. In accordance with the theory of securitization, since the spread of COVID-19 becomes a pandemic and threatens health security of the people, countries take part in securitization actions through the application of rules on limiting medical industry transactions, whose products are urgently needed by other countries together with the securitization of the COVID-19 pandemic issues. Thus, the authors examine the acts of securitization from case studies of three countries: Britain, France, and the United States, as samples from countries supporting neoliberal order who has done this action. So, it is known that during the pandemic, countries in the world failed to maintain their liberal economic practices. Then, weaknesses are found in the global liberal economic system, where the dependency of the production and distribution chains on one another can lead to vulnerability to unilateral termination by several involved countries which prioritize their national interests and re-implement economic nationalism.