Lekcje z pandemii. Globalna tragedia wspólnoty
Lessons from the pandemic. Global tragedy of the commons

Summary/Abstract: In the text we attempt to answer one of the key questions in the field of stud-ies on global international order – is the covid-19 pandemic a catalyst for the further decline of the West on the international stage? The article is writ-ten from the socio-constructivist perspective, and at the center of our rumi-nations, we placed the issue of the crisis of confidence in scientific knowledge. We assumed that creationand development, of the unprecedented in the mankind history, system of knowledge production and verification, gave the very advantage of the Western civilization and resulted in its dominant position in the world. Currently, apart from the observable confrontations in the economic and politi-cal fields, we can also observe the lack of confidence in knowledge-producing sys-tems. We argue that the “escape from reason” manifests itself in international relations in the global “tragedy of the commons”. Moreover, the Latin civiliza-tion is in decline due to the decline of the trust in the viability of the systemati-cally produced knowledge, and systematic knowledge production was fundamental to the position of the West in international relations.

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