... given extraordinary powers, even to impose curfews. Westphalianism has lost to globalization here, too. Globalization is not what it used to be, though.
Globalization 3.0: Contours and Possibilities
Andrey Kortunov:
Why Is Biden Govt Setting Wrong COVID-19 Agenda
Critics of globalization are quick to pronounce its death, presenting it as one of the main “victims of world politics,” but they forget that this phenomenon has its own dynamics. At least two models of globalization have emerged over the past 50 years:
Globalization ...
... is to understand to what extent the audience changes its attitude toward the presented topic and whether a speaker manages to be persuasive.
The third discussion will begin on October 5 at 18:00 (Moscow time, GMT+3). The topic of the meeting: Has the COVID-19 pandemic ended the era of accelerated globalization?
Speakers:
Anastasia Likhacheva, Director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics
Sergey Utkin, Lead Researcher, Center for Situational Analysis, IMEMO
Carsten Kowalczyk, Associate Professor ...
... “historical West,” while alternative socio-political and economic models are demonstrating stability, and in some cases even a high degree of efficiency. A textbook example of this is the differences in the ways that the United States and China handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accordingly, this raises the question of combining the planet-wide universalism of globalization with the remaining pluralism of national development tracks, including both economic and political tracks. The rules of the game in the global world should be balanced in such a manner as to be equally comfortable for the greatest number ...
... reassess long-held concepts, structures, and ways of being. One of the most debated topics of the past few decades has been globalisation, which has followed a particular path shaped by the interests of a global order that was already shifting prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The question now is, with the accelerated changes taking place across the world, what will this mean for globalisation?
To address this extremely critical and timely topic, the DOC has launched a series of expert articles on the ‘Future ...
... economic system. A few centuries ago, this kind of viral pneumonia (like COVID-19) would have gone completely unnoticed: yes, large numbers of the elderly and infirm would have died, but life would have gone on as usual. Experts are already saying that the COVID-19 death rate is nowhere near that of the pandemics that ravaged the planet in the past.
The second characteristic clearly runs counter to the general consensus among analysts who blame the crisis on globalization and prophesy the emergence of a post-global world. Upon closer inspection, however, it would seem that their criticisms have little to do with the objective side of globalization (the development of technology, transport and financial instruments) ...
... tightening of border controls and other signs of the crumbling (or, to borrow a word from the Valdai Club’s vocabulary, “shattering”) world.
A few qualifications are in order here. First, many of the alarm bells above started sounding long before COVID-19. Talk about the crisis of globalization has been around for at least ten years, if not longer. Second, the very fact of the virus spreading around the world like wildfire clearly confirms that, despite anti-globalist prophecies, globalization continued at a brisk pace in the 2010s....
