The Coronavirus Pandemic: Global Challenges Requires Global Cooperation

... vaccine supplies for their own citizens and to make demands for greater national self-sufficiency. The pandemic has placed more pressure than ever on governments to protect their national economies and supply chains. Meanwhile, the costs of so-called ‘vaccine nationalism’ are estimated at more than $1 trillion per year. By prioritising strategies to address the immediate concerns of public health, international cooperation on a range of issues – not least climate change – may be harder in the future. The politicisation of the pandemic is, itself, a concerning and negative trend. It undermines both cross-border cooperation and the efficiency ...