THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Author(s): Viorel ORDEANU, Lucia Ionescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Sociology, Security and defense, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: security; pandemic; COVID-19; health crisis; economic crisis; situational experiment; medical intelligence; fake new;
Summary/Abstract: Transmissible infectious diseases are caused by living biological agents that can be transmitted in different ways from the source, causing outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics. The current epidemiological situation, the COVID-19 pandemic is serious due to its rapid transmissibility, strong complications, and the fact that it is an unknown disease. Given its characteristics, similar in parts to a biological agent used as a disabling weapon, in this paper, we will address the current COVID-19 pandemic as an ongoing “situational experiment” in order to simulate a targeted biological attack (on a strategically important locality) with infectious effects that extends nationally and internationally. This type of pandemic has destructive potential through the created health crisis, followed by the economic crisis, aggravated by the information crisis (infodemics) and finally the social crisis with unpredictable consequences
- Page Range: 48-61
- Page Count: 13
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: English
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