What Covid-19 means for international cooperation
Just when rules-based multilateralism is in retreat, perhaps the fear and losses arising from Covid-19 will birth a better model of globalisation.
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Washington, DC
THROUGHOUT history, crisis and human progress have often gone hand in hand. While the growing Covid-19 pandemic could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalisation, the outbreak also could spur a new wave of international cooperation of the sort that emerged after World War II.
Covid-19 may become not only a huge health crisis, but also a crisis of globalisation and global governance. Most obviously, it raises the question of how the world should organise itself against the threat of pandemics. But it also has implications for how globalisation is perceived and what that perception means for the future of international cooperation.
