The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western Hegemony
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ia9KSveeIJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ia9KSveeIJ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2021.1913799" target="_blank" >10.1080/02589346.2021.1913799</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western Hegemony
Original language description
Crises brought about by COVID-19 have provided us with a key set of observations about global power in an era where international relations scholars are close to coming to a consensus in acknowledging the decline of Western and specifically American hegemony. This paper adopts a decolonial approach to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on international politics. It argues that throughout much of the Western world, COVID-19 has marked one of the first unexpected encounters with death that populations have faced since World War II and the pre-poliomyelitis vaccine era. As a result, global health policies mandated by the WHO have been articulated in favour of the West. Statistical analysis of death tolls brought about by COVID-19, numerous other infectious diseases and viruses along with associated geographic patterns reveal that quarantine and lockdown policies were carried out at the expense and wellbeing of much of the developing world. Contrary to popular contemporary arguments that contend the international liberal order is in decline, the emergence of COVID-19 and subsequent global health policy responses have demonstrated that Western hegemony and soft power are still salient.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
ISSN
0258-9346
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
ZA - SOUTH AFRICA
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
331-346
UT code for WoS article
000641318700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85104787635