The Post-Corona World and International Political Landscape: Emerging Challenges

  • Attiq-ur-Rehman Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Shahid Hussain Bukhari Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
  • Syed Mussawar Hussain Bukhari Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Keywords: Covid-19, Corona Epidemic, International System, World Politics

Abstract

The outbreak of the global pandemic and its global outreach has challenged and shocked the international community. It has paralyzed the nations through upending the mainstream social, political, and economic activities of nations. The Covid-19 related restriction further suspended the normal affairs of states under an international environment of a health emergency. The pandemic crisis has clearly communicated to the international community that the digital world has arrived because the dependency on information technology has raised the significance of hi-tech communication networks in the world. This global crisis has endangered international society and the nations are struggling against the Covid-19 viral disease. No doubt, the whole international system has gradually learned to survive in the health crisis and the leaders from around the world are thinking of resuming normalization, but the actual question linked to the global governance in the post-corona world is unanswered. This pandemic year has raised the need for a serious conversation on the future of global political order because the Covid-19 has undermined the conventional wisdom attached to the crisis management mechanism of states. In short, the heating debates of the post-corona international political environment have generated a process of de-globalization and the international community is approaching a new world based on new realities. Therefore, this study is an endeavor to estimate the probable future scenario which will become an undeniable reality in the post-corona world.

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Attiq-ur-Rehman, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan

Shahid Hussain Bukhari, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Syed Mussawar Hussain Bukhari, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
Attiq-ur-Rehman, Bukhari, S. H., & Bukhari, S. M. H. (2020). The Post-Corona World and International Political Landscape: Emerging Challenges. Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 6(2), 453-461. https://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i2.1154