Yeni Düşman Pandemiden Sonra Uluslararası Sistem
The International System After the New Enemy Pandemic

Author(s): Poyraz Gurson, Can Telemeci
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: pandemic; covid-19; international relations; international system;
Summary/Abstract: Major breaks in history have been experienced as a result of great disasters, wars and epidemics. Humanity, who experienced two great world wars in the 20th century, has faced with the Covid-19 epidemic that emerged in Wuhan, China and spread to the whole world in a short time. Transnational organizations established to prevent wars, improve diplomacy between countries and find solutions to global problems together have been inadequate to solve the crises that broke out in the world today, as in the past. As a result, trust in international organizations has been deeply damaged.The Covid-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, can be defined as a new enemy for states. The virus, which affected the whole world and spread rapidly regardless of race, language, religion, gender, rich and poor, affected all social life. In addition, in the international system, especially globalization, nation-state, country borders, international institutions, freedom-security dilemma, health, neo-liberal policies and social security concepts have been discussed again.Although it is an exaggerated point of view that the pandemic is seen as a factor that will transform the international system alone, it has enabled all the problems caused by the neo-capitalist order to emerge even more. States tried to protect their citizens by withdrawing to their own borders against the pandemic that could not be solved on a global scale. Countries such as the USA, China, Germany, Russia and the UK have managed to develop a vaccine against the virus in a short period of one year. However, there is a ruthless and unfair competition between countries, even regarding the vaccine which is the most fundamental right of humanity.In this study, the struggle of countries against the new enemy pandemic and the effect of the pandemic on the international order in the world where a great historical break occurred with the epidemic disease was examined.

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