THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MILITARY POWER IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MILITARY POWER IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION

Author(s): DIACONU FLORIN
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Military policy, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Indo-Pacific region; military power; military forces; world powers; great powers; regional powers; COVID-19 pandemic; resilience; risks;
Summary/Abstract: A few decades ago, John Naisbitt was openly listing a new major trend, already visible at that very moment on the international arena: the complex realities in the Pacific Ocean area were already massively important, and their global relevance grew larger and larger. Nowadays, this megatrend is even more important, leading both various political actors (leaders, states, political parties) and various analysts to an obvious conclusion: the Indo-Pacific region is the new center of the global system. In such a situation, the study explores, with some relevant details, the way in which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted the armed forces (military power) of some of the most important states in the Indo-Pacific region (mainly the US, China, India and Russia, but also some regional great powers – Japan, South Korea, Australia, and other regionally significant powers – Vietnam, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Taiwan, among others).

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