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The Big Reveal: COVID-19 and Globalization's Great Transformations
International Organization ( IF 8.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 , DOI: 10.1017/s0020818320000387
Kathleen R. McNamara , Abraham L. Newman

Analysis of the post-COVID world tends to gravitate to one of two poles. For some, the pandemic is a crisis that will reshuffle the decks, producing a fundamental reordering of global politics. For others, the basic principles of the international order are likely to remain much the same, driven largely by the emerging bipolar system between the US and China. We find both narratives dissatisfying, as the former overinterprets the causal role of the pandemic itself, while the latter underappreciates the critical ways in which global politics have been transformed beyond the state-centered system of the Cold War. We argue instead that the pandemic exposes underlying trends already at work and forces scholars to open the aperture on how we study globalization. Most centrally, we contend that globalization needs to be seen not just as a distributional game of winners and losers but rather a more profoundly transformational game that reshapes identities, redefines channels of power and authority, and generates new sites for contentious politics. We draw on emerging work to sketch out a theoretical frame for thinking about the politics of globalization, and assess some of the key policy arenas where COVID-19 is accelerating the transformative effects of globalization. In so doing, we suggest a roadmap to a post-pandemic research agenda for studying global markets that more fully captures these transformations and their implications for world politics.

中文翻译:

大启示:COVID-19 和全球化的巨大转变

对后 COVID 世界的分析往往倾向于两极之一。对一些人来说,大流行是一场危机,将重新洗牌,对全球政治产生根本性的重新排序。对于其他人来说,国际秩序的基本原则可能会保持不变,主要是由中美之间新兴的两极体系推动的。我们发现这两种叙述都不令人满意,因为前者过度解释了大流行本身的因果作用,而后者低估了全球政治已经超越以国家为中心的冷战体系转变的关键方式。相反,我们认为这种流行病暴露了已经在起作用的潜在趋势,并迫使学者们打开了我们如何研究全球化的大门。最集中,我们认为,全球化不仅需要被视为赢家和输家的分配游戏,还需要被视为一场更深刻的变革性游戏,它重塑身份、重新定义权力和权威渠道,并为有争议的政治创造新的场所。我们利用新兴工作勾勒出思考全球化政治的理论框架,并评估 COVID-19 正在加速全球化变革影响的一些关键政策领域。为此,我们建议制定大流行后研究议程的路线图,以研究更全面地捕捉这些转变及其对世界政治的影响的全球市场。并为有争议的政治产生新的网站。我们利用新兴工作勾勒出思考全球化政治的理论框架,并评估 COVID-19 正在加速全球化变革影响的一些关键政策领域。为此,我们建议制定大流行后研究议程的路线图,以研究更全面地捕捉这些转变及其对世界政治的影响的全球市场。并为有争议的政治产生新的网站。我们利用新兴工作勾勒出思考全球化政治的理论框架,并评估 COVID-19 正在加速全球化变革影响的一些关键政策领域。为此,我们建议制定大流行后研究议程的路线图,以研究更全面地捕捉这些转变及其对世界政治的影响的全球市场。
更新日期:2020-09-14
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