Pandemia de COVID-19 și politica internațională - Cîteva considerații prin prisma teoriei șocului strategic și geopolitic
COVID-19 pandemic and international politics - Some considerations in terms of strategic and geopolitical shock theory

Summary/Abstract: Pandemic outbreaks are not a new phenomenon globally nevertheless, each epidemic has its own defining features, magnitude, and discernible impact in world politics. Sometimes in its manifestation, the Covid pandemic has taken on the characteristic of a shock that has exacerbated the pre-existing polarizations of geopolitical rivalries and produced huge changes in the behavior of great powers on the international arena. The purpose of this article is not to provide possible solutions and scenarios to follow. We want to offer some considerations for stimulate to look for new interpretives frameworks in fundamental and empirical research in the field of international theory and policy during a pandemic crisis.

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