Nationalism, the Bad Side Effect Coronavirus

Kenichi Ohmae's book, “Bota without borders”, was published in 1990 - a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It became one of the classical texts of the world era. But the borders are now turning into revenge caused by the Coronavirus. When the pandemic passes, the most extreme obstacles to travel will be removed. But there is no possibility that there will be complete restoration of the globalized world, as existed before the Cavido-19 virus. The nation state is returning, driven by this extraordinary crisis.

There are three main reasons for this. First, the pandemic showed that in case of emergency, people need the nation-state, which has financial, organisational and emotional forces that lack global institutions. Second, the disease is revealing the fragility of global supply networks. Finally, the pandemic is strengthening the political trends that were powerful even before the crisis began, especially demands for more protectionism, location of production and tougher border controls.

In the current situation, the tightening of border controls for a while makes sense. And this return to the nation, within borders, in this case there is nothing wrong. It's just a kind of correction of the political course in democracy, in response to events and changes in the mood of the public. But the danger is that the state-national revival will slip into uncontrolled nationalism, leading to a decline in global trade and the abandoning of international co-operation. The worst scenes include the EU's fall and the destruction of US-Kina relations that could culminate in war.

Return to the state-state has been particularly evident in Europe, as the EU aims to be the organisation that has gone further to overcome the nation. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to the nation about the urgency of the pandemic, she never mentioned the EU. Border controls that had essentially disappeared between France and Germany suddenly returned. Financial assistance for businesses, families and unemployed mainly comes from local governments, not the EU. Known politicians in Poland, Italy and Spain have criticised the EU for failing to fulfill the promise of solidarity.

Given the relative sizes of EU budgets and European nations, it is inevitable that governments will take up most of their weight as they try to ward off depression. In the coming days, the EU will try to achieve large pan-European fiscal measures. But as the crisis intensifys and financial and medical resources reduces pressures on European solidarity.

Antagonisms opened by the pandemic between the United States and China are more visible. Donald Trump's decision to label vivid-19 as China's <x0-virus” is typical of the political style of blaming the American president. But it is also a response to Chinese officials' attempts to suggest that the virus may originate from America. Bill Bishop, an experienced observer, recently commented: “I haven't seen the most dangerous time in U.S.-Ki relations in the last 40 years. ”

Pandemia also strengthens the hand of those in the Trump administration who have long wanted to dismantle international supply networks and restore production to the US. Peter Navarro, the most fervent defender in the White House, argues that the virus shows that “in a global public health emergency, the US remained alone”. Of course, a situation in which 97 percent of all antibiotics in America are imported from China is no longer likely to continue.

But these kinds of considerations lie beyond the medicines and tense U.S.-Kine relationship.

The push driven by the pandemic against globalism will be further taken, initially by protectionists and national security skifts. But it will muster strength and join the other political currents that were gaining power even before the Individual 19th virus. On the left, environmental movement was already stigmatizing numerous trips, and it required that localisation be listed before globalism. On the right, noisy demands to keep out refugees and illegal immigrants were growing.

But while antiglobalists are likely to have political winds in their favor, after the end of the pandemic they will actually have no better solution. Rather, a pandemic that is a major global problem eventually requires a form of international co-ordination. The revival of the world economy will also be much harder if countries move towards autism. At the national level, no one accepts the kidnappers who receive all the toilet paper packages and all the milk boxes from supermarket shelves. But what happens when all countries behave like this? We have to prepare to see him. /Buriment: Financial Times/purify in Albanian: Mapo.