ABSTRACT

This article offers a review of the emergent literature on ‘vaccine nationalism' - the act of gaining preferential access to newly developed vaccines by individual countries - in the context of COVID-19, paying close attention to the complex relationships between the global public health crisis and globalization. The coexistence of nationalist and globalist approaches to COVID-19 vaccines suggests simultaneous and contentious processes of globalization and deglobalization; the growing political and economic divide in the world; the lack of (or lag in) our consciousness of global interconnectedness, especially in non-economic spheres; and various structural barriers to global collaboration when facing a common threat to humanity’s future. Although these tensions - not necessarily novel - are unlikely to end globalization given the extant intertwining of global economic networks, they have been sharpened and intensified during the pandemic and, thus, constitute a pivotal - or make-or-break - moment for us to critically imagine a postpandemic world.

摘要

本文回顾了有关“疫苗民族主义”的新兴文献——个别国家优先获得新开发疫苗的行为——在 COVID-19 的背景下，密切关注全球公共卫生危机之间的复杂关系和全球化。COVID-19 疫苗的民族主义和全球主义方法并存，这表明全球化和去全球化同时存在且有争议的过程；世界上日益扩大的政治和经济鸿沟；缺乏（或滞后）我们对全球相互联系的意识，尤其是在非经济领域；当面临对人类未来的共同威胁时，全球合作面临的各种结构性障碍。