Pandemopolitics. How a public health problem become a geopolitical and geoeconomic issue

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ID12777670
AuthorsViorel Mionel (0000-0001-8636-5710, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, corresponding author), Silviu Neguţ (0000-0002-6038-2608, Bucharest University of Economic Studies), Oana Mionel (0000-0002-9883-9570, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University)
Year2020
Volume61
Issue4-5
Pages389-403
Publication date2020-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEurasian Geography and Economics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1538-7216 • E-ISSN: 1938-2863
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15387216.2020.1828125
OpenAlexW3091144228
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited7

This study examines how the delay and blocking of studies on the origin of the virus and, at the same time, the effects they have caused or, as the case may be, reactivated have led several Western states to associate the virus with China (“Chinese virus”), demonstrating that the new international reality has taken the form of geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions. The article also argues that the way in which the states involved have chosen to position themselves in relation to the pandemic, the effects that SARS-CoV-2 has on the population, as well as the reactivation of older geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects define the emergence of a new type of international politics: pandemopolitics. The main argument in favor of pandemopolitics is that without this global public health problem, geopolitical and geoeconomic games would not have had such a strong impact on humanity, and their magnitude is due exclusively to pandemopolitics

Business · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Public health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine

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