“More-than-viral” Eurasian geographies of the covid-19 pandemic: interconnections, inequalities, and geopolitics

Chan, Kam Wing; Gentile, Michael; Kinossian, Nadir; Oakes, Tim; Young, Craig

doi:10.1080/15387216.2020.1840414

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“…Others argue that COVID-19 itself mirrors and produces more inequalities of power and space, as well as socio-political conflicts within and among nations, regions, localities ( Dodds et al, 2020 ; also see the Special Issues in Dialogues in Human Geography , volume 20 Issue 2, and in Eurasian Geography and Economics , volume 61, Issue 4–5.). It is suggested that the state at multiple spatial levels has emerged as a key and powerful territorial agency on an unprecedented scale – through controlling global travel restrictions, domestic lock-down, social distancing and other measures – in creating an unconventional movement of geopolitics and socio-spatial governance ( Chan et al, 2020 ; Grundy-Warr & Lin, 2020 ). These studies have emphasized more on how the pandemic has been generating geographies of governance quality and performance mainly at the national level ( Asongu et al, 2020 ).…”

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What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China

Dong

2022

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This paper examines how the economies of old industrial cities in Northeast China respond to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The notion of resistance in regional economic resilience is used to explore what impact factors shape the response to the early stage of the crisis. The analysis reveals significant differences in terms of regional economic impact between COVID-19 and the 2008 financial crisis. We find that large cities are more vulnerable and exposed to the pandemic at its early stage, state agency plays a crucial role in shaping the economic resistance in most cities. Going beyond the existing 2008 financial crisis-induced account on regional economic resilience, this paper argues that regional resistance amid COVID-19 is not merely shaped by economic structural factors but also influenced by state agency in terms of economic restriction and restoration measures. The study suggests that the nature of COVID-19 as a particular context of crisis itself needs to be taken seriously when exploring the determinants and outcomes of regional economic resilience.

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What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China

Dong

2022

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“…23 Their arguments confirmed that a disease is a geopolitical issue, as Alan Ingram claimed in 2005. 24 Ingram concludes that, following the end of the Cold War, the disease has been seen as a geopolitical affair in terms of four main dimensions: destabilisation, sovereignty, the instrumen- 23 Sheikh et al 2021;Chan et al 2020;Markey 2020b;Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2020;Feyerabend 2020. 24 Ingram 2005 talisation of health, and the geopolitical economy.…”

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The COVID-19 vaccines as extension of foreign policies by other means

Dokmanović¹,

Cvetićanin²

2022

J Regional Security

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Existing knowledge of the geopolitics of public health and the coronavirus pandemic indicates that states, particularly the most powerful ones (the United States, China, Russia), have used the current global crisis to strengthen their influence worldwide, in line with their geopolitical, economic, and military aspirations. Geopoliticisation of the COVID-19 vaccines have not been explored so far. Based on the qualitative analysis of the media content and statistics on the vaccines' distribution, this article makes two arguments. First, these vaccines have become an extension of foreign policy by other means. Second, geopoliticisation of the distribution of vaccine contributes to an instrumentalisation of the pandemic, raising global insecurity and the destabilisation of states and economies on the periphery and semi-periphery. Due to this new Cold War between the 'vaccine superpowers' , the world has become divided into Western and the Eastern 'vaccine-blocs'. Within this context, the chances for multilateral cooperation to counter global threats are on a downward trajectory.

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“…The outbreak of Covid-19 forced governments and organizations to struggle in dealing with its implications. As a result, major changes emerged in various domains such as government (Shafi et al, 2020;Shah et al, 2020;Tolu et al, 2020), public services (Chen, 2020;Johnson et al, 2020), healthcare (Dewey et al, 2020;Mayer & Lewis, 2020), education (Mishra et al, 2020), transnational labour (Creţan & Light, 2020), geopolitical issues (Chan et al, 2020;Mionel et al, 2020;Moisio, 2020), global energy market (Connolly et al, 2020), spatial dimensions (Krzysztofik et al, 2020), and economy (Hammour et al, 2020;Kumar et al, 2020). The higher education sector was also subjected to adjustments and faced adverse challenges in its educational operations globally.…”

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Challenges and Issues of Public Education in Saudi Arabia during Covid-19: Review Paper

Al-Shehri¹

2023

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The Covid-19 pandemic compelled many countries to implement the stay-at-home policy, which insisted many employees and workers in variety of industries to work from home. This global crisis also prompted universities, colleges, and schools to conduct their teaching activities online via the Internet. Although online education is favourable for students especially in the era of pandemic, a full mode of online teaching could be associated with many challenges. Particularly, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), most education sectors were closed down according to government order. The Ministry of Education (MOE) of the KSA began providing online education services in public and private educational institutions. Thus, this paper aims to determine how Covid-19 impacted higher education in the KSA by highlighting the challenges faced by this sector and identifying the best strategies to address these challenges. In this study, the design science approach was applied. The results revealed that the KSA faced several challenges and issues during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the suggested solution is better in dealing with these challenges.

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“More-than-viral” Eurasian geographies of the covid-19 pandemic: interconnections, inequalities, and geopolitics

Cited by 9 publications

References 64 publications

What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China

What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China

The COVID-19 vaccines as extension of foreign policies by other means

Challenges and Issues of Public Education in Saudi Arabia during Covid-19: Review Paper

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