ABSTRACT

The study of how governments deal with the Coronavirus disease-2020 (COVID-19) crisis is becoming a major research stream worldwide. This article contends that the Crisismanship process or system in countries dealing with and controlling this deadly phenomenon should be studied more seriously and more systematically using the novel concept or theory of “surprise management” and “sound governance”. The COVID-19 Crisismanship is offered as a theoretical and conceptual model that refers to a “systematic and dynamic process of the interplay of the three pillars of crisis governance, crisis public administration, and crisis operational activities at the time of a crisis, both vertically and horizontally, with potential overlaps“ as applied to the fight against COVID-19 in Iran.¹ The tireless proactive as well as reactive efforts of Iranian medical scientists and pharmaceutical institutions have resulted in the production of several effective Vaccines as well as treatment drugs in the fight against the Coronavirus. These treatment drugs and vaccines will be used for not only Iran’s population but also supplied to many other countries in the region, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Nevertheless, the article makes no claim of an Iran’s perfect or complete success in controlling or defeating COVID-19, as no one can. Iran has lost over 50,000 lives with over one million infected. Yet, the article does suggest that lessons learned from the Iranian government’s responses to the COVID-19 may help other countries in a fight against similar pandemic crises in the future.

摘要

对政府如何应对 2020 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 危机的研究正在成为全球的主要研究方向。本文认为，应对应对和控制这一致命现象的国家的危机进程或制度进行更认真、更系统的研究，使用“意外管理”和“健全治理”的新概念或理论。COVID-19危机作为一种理论和概念模型提供，它指的是“危机发生时危机治理、危机公共行政和危机运营活动三大支柱相互作用的系统和动态过程，两者都在纵向上在横向上，潜在的重叠“适用于在伊朗与 COVID-19 的斗争。¹伊朗医学科学家和制药机构的不懈主动和被动努力导致生产了几种有效的疫苗和治疗药物，以对抗冠状病毒。这些治疗药物和疫苗不仅将用于伊朗人口，还将供应给该地区、拉丁美洲、亚洲和非洲的许多其他国家。尽管如此，这篇文章并没有声称伊朗在控制或击败 COVID-19 方面取得了完美或完全的成功，因为没有人可以做到。伊朗已经失去了 50,000 多人的生命，超过 100 万人被感染。然而，这篇文章确实表明，从伊朗政府对 COVID-19 的反应中吸取的教训可能有助于其他国家在未来应对类似的大流行危机。