The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of International Order: A Short Overview

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected most of the world, adding health security as a new challenge. Instead of facing these challenges, some states move towards a system of competition and intolerance, which forms new patterns in the international order. This questions the impact of the pandemic on the strategic dynamics of the international order. This article argues that the global pandemic transforms the political system and the way of governing liberal democracy more than any other factor. It took the form of a variable, driver, and accelerator, and the established world order transformed into a new form of order. Using the descriptive-analytical method and the theories of international relations, the current study examined the impact of the pandemic on the strategic dynamics of the international order.

Scoping review of international relations theories in health security: A cue for health diplomacy

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled us to reimagine the existing world order and inspect the nature of the shift that can be expected. [1][2][3] With health security becoming the forefront of the discussion in national security and foreign policy concerns, governments worldwide had to balance their act of protecting their people while having a global outlook. This situation was further aggravated by tensions between the USA and China on the origin of the COVID-19 virus, China's contention over Taiwan's accession to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.…”