Pregledni rad
COVID-19 pandemic – „vaccine diplomacy“ and consequences for democratic development
Dario Malnar
orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-1420
; Hrvatsko vojno učilište “Dr. Franjo Tuđman
Siniša Tatalović
; Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
The COVID-19 pandemic, that began to spread from China in late 2019 and soon took on global proportions, despite the efforts of states and the international community, is still in an expansion phase. Through its extended duration, in addition to health implications, it has numerous socio-economic, foreign policy and security implications, it weakens social cohesion and confidence in the institutional system. On the one hand, pandemic faces countries with the need to implement extraordinary measures that are somewhat at odds with the usual levels of personal freedoms in democratic systems. In addition, the pandemic is accompanied by active diplomatic, disinformation, economic, political and security activities of international actors. These activities are often focused on attempts to rearrange, redefine and reshape global geopolitical power relations, while also questioning the effectiveness of democratic systems. Attempts to exploit a situation characterized by insufficient quantities of vaccines to protect against COVID and the distribution of vaccines determined by foreign policy, economic and security interests, are referred to as vaccine diplomacy. In line with the hypothesis that the pandemic has stimulated the involvement of international actors in order to redefine power relations at the global level, which with pandemic response measures and restrictions on personal freedoms may have negative consequences for democratic development, the paper analyzes the activities of key international actors EU, US, China and Russia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic given the demands of democratic development.
Ključne riječi
COVID-19; pandemic; vaccine diplomacy; democracy; security
Hrčak ID:
272202
URI
Datum izdavanja:
9.2.2022.
Posjeta: 762 *