Global crisis, new role of the State and possible post-Covid-19 scenarios

Authors

  • Jaime Pastor Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/CLIVATGE2020.8.1

Keywords:

Covid-19, states, biopolitics, public, common, protectionism, territory

Abstract

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed a series of crisscross crises of global reach in different areas. However, there is some recovery of the role of the State in order to respond not only to the most immediate challenges as pertains health, security, economic and social spheres within a context of crisis of neoliberal globalization and geopolitical competition between old and new great powers, but also to the deterioration of climate change and the appreciation of the public and common domains. In this article, the limits of the state scale to meet these challenges are underlined, but also the difficulties to overcome the present crisis of global governance. Different possible scenarios may appear in a post-Covid-19 world: either “business as usual”, the neo-social-democratic recipe, or the one that may arise from social movements that aspire to achieve a transformed civilization paradigm. Beyond these speculations, in this new era, coexistence with insecurity in the future will be normalcy.

 

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Published

2020-07-06

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Pastor, J. (2020). Global crisis, new role of the State and possible post-Covid-19 scenarios. Clivatge. Journal of Studies on Social Conflict and Change, (8). https://doi.org/10.1344/CLIVATGE2020.8.1

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No. 8: The Neoliberal Advance

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