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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Coming Cold War

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-02T11:14:06-10:00March 30th, 2020|

The COVID-19 Crisis has been a significant global event, putting stress on states in how they respond, exasperating geopolitical tensions between great powers, and impacting manufacturing and shipping. Many are scrambling to understand the long-term consequences, with Foreign Policy’s recent review by 12 leading intellectuals being an obvious example. Notable predictions from them include the possible end of (economic) globalization, or at least the end of US-led globalization; other predictions include the rise of state power, diminishing individual liberties and highlighting the limitations of international organizations (“the state is back”); and others note the implicit ideological struggle between the authoritarian [...]

Mass Surveillance and Individual Privacy

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-02T11:13:20-10:00March 30th, 2020|

During a crisis, governments will seek to implement technological solutions in an effort be responsive. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception—in order to contain the spread of an outbreak and to assist with contact tracing, governments are using technologies, such as facial recognition, surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence, and mobile phone apps. The use of technological solutions, however, comes at a cost to individual privacy. View/Download Document

COVID-19: End of Hyper-globalization and Start of Hyper-Localization?

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-02T11:10:06-10:00March 27th, 2020|

The 1918 Spanish flu immediately following World War-I, the Second World War, breakdown of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, 9-11 terror attacks, and collapse of the Lehman Brothers and the 2008 Financial Crisis, all of these events were world altering events. They changed the course of human societies and political, economic, and societal organizations in some fundamental ways. The 2008 collapse of the financial markets saw the tightening of the loan requirements and consumer credit markets, 9-11 terror attacks saw the implementation of rigorous airport security checks and immigration control at every airport across the world, [...]

COVID-19 and Kurdistan Region of Iraq

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-06T09:16:35-10:00March 26th, 2020|

By: Tayeb Hamid Mohammed Sherwani (CSRT 19-1) The Kurdistan Regional Government implemented several processes and regulations to prevent the prevention and containment of the coronavirus at the start of the epidemic. Concerning the lethal coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has taken many lives worldwide in a short period of time, it has captured global attention not only through requirement of treatment but also through containment and prevention to control the spread of the virus. The virus originated in China, which has the second most deaths worldwide while Italy being affected the most. Currently, it seems as if China has halted the further [...]

National and Regional Security Implications of COVID-19 – Maldives

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-06T09:30:12-10:00March 23rd, 2020|

By: Abdulla Phairoosch (CCM 2011-1) COVID-19, the disease caused by a “novel” strain of coronavirus family, is wreaking havoc across the globe. Consequently, many countries have elevated the COVID-19 pandemic from a public health issue to a national security issue. Will this alleviate the risk, is a question that has no definitive answer as of now, though many countries, like Japan and the Maldives, are battling the threat through the provisions of public health protection laws. Nevertheless, national borders have become more prominent in the discussion in mitigating the risk or ‘flattening the curve’. One of the first approaches to crisis [...]

Cooperation and Collaboration Amidst the Crisis – Nepal

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-06T09:31:07-10:00March 22nd, 2020|

By: HK Shrestha The Covid-19 pandemic has defied national boundaries and has vindicated our shared vulnerability to this new phenomenon. It has underscored the imperative need to redouble concerted efforts at every level - national, regional, and international level to defeat the disease. In my mind, multilateralism is key for unleashing synergetic actions to overcome the current crisis. The pandemic has amply brought home the necessity to revisit the narrative of regional and international security. Equally critical is the imminent fallout in the aftermath of the pandemic, which the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has rightly termed as After Corona [...]

Chile

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-06T09:32:06-10:00March 20th, 2020|

By: Javier Gonzalez First case of COVID-19 detected in Chile was March 3rd with one person (a doctor) who went for vacation to South East Asia. Next day his wife was detected with COVID-19, they were at their honeymoon in that location of Asia (Thai, Vietnam). From that day until now, we have a total of 434 people with COVID-19. The authorities last Saturday upgraded from Phase 3 to Phase 4. National boundaries (air, maritime and land) was closed. On March 18, President Piñera declared Exceptional State of Catastrophe, that means the Military Forces takes control of the country by Regional [...]

Tonga

By APCSS Editor|2020-03-30T11:32:16-10:00March 19th, 2020|

COVID-19 Impact Sione Talanoa My Personal Views Any health threat such as COVID-19 whether originated from any particular country or state should be considered as an international threat in the sense that no one could predict the spreading potential and limitless power of the threat. There is no boundary for any health issue as we have witnessed for the COVID-19, SAR outbreak in 2003, EBOLA threat in most African countries since 1976 and various flu pandemics and epidemics. With this view in hand, we expect aggressive and effective international response to minimize or even eradicate the health threat thus preventing an [...]

Botswana

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-06T09:35:49-10:00March 19th, 2020|

By: Oratile Adumeleng (CSRT 19-1) The economy is reliant mostly on diamonds and tourism, but at the moment, the tourism industry is halted till further notice. Tourists have cancelled bookings and safari and wilderness businesses are winding down with staff is being retrenched due to low returns. The largest consumers of Botswana rough diamonds are US, India and China and these countries have been seriously hit by corona virus. The profits made by the diamond industry are now directed to fighting corona virus and other planned developments are being halted until the situation is under control. Currently, some of our borders are [...]

Mabuhay from Manila

By APCSS Editor|2020-04-02T16:15:22-10:00March 18th, 2020|

Rostum J. Baustista We are on enhanced community quarantine, at least in the whole island of Luzon for two days now. A euphonious term for "lockdown" any which way one looks at it. Hello to all our Friends in Hawaii! Mabuhay from Manila! Just like in any other places on the planet now, we are on red alert level 2 because of the health emergency, worsening to pandemic and now turning to panic for many. The authorities have been always calming down the people here but access to movement, food and family from elsewhere is getting a bit hard. Good thing the internet [...]

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