Academic Scientific JournalsInternational Relations in the Time of Corona
Keywords:
Covid-19, pandemic, international change, international relations, international political economy, commodity chains, bipolarityAbstract
The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic vary with level of analysis: one the lower level of individual transactions, consequences may be severe; on the intermediate level the pandemic will affect trade and disrupt commodity chains; on the level of the international system, consequences will be minimal – the pandemic may speed up changes that are already under way, but hardly alter the direction of major trajectories. To explore the likely impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international relations, this essay takes as its vantage point Joseph Nye’s image of the three-boarded chess-game.
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