The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries
The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries

Author(s): Andrey Makarychev
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Covid-19;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 had significantly changed the structure of world politics by shifting its core from issues of geopolitics to what in the academic literature for quite some time has been known as global biopolitics . As a concept, biopolitics implies 2 political strategies and calculations based on protecting human lives, taking care of people and managing public health, medicine and hygiene, and advancing the role of an apolitical civil society. However, the global scope of the pandemic so far did not foster political consolidation among key international actors. On the contrary, the biopolitical momentum triggered more diversity and fragmentation in the world. Dynamics across the triangle EU–Russia–Eastern Partnership (EaP) states seem to be quite illustrative of this trend (as also looking with European binoculars across the Atlantic at the responses to the pandemic of Trump and Bolsonaro).

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