What will the world look like after a coronavirus pandemic?
What will the world look like after a coronavirus pandemic? And haven't we been living in it for a while? Hasn't the pandemic just made long-term trends more obvious? How should nation states and the European Union prepare for an economic crisis in the era of deglobalisation? < br> At the height of the coronavirus crisis, Ivan Krastev sparked global interest with his article on the impact of the pandemic on future social change. He now follows up with an essay exploring the political and cultural implications of Covid-19 as a laboratory social experiment. He brilliantly and provocatively analyses the social consequences of quarantine dystopia, the return of government intervention, closing the borders of nation states, the role of experts and crisis management in democratic and authoritarian states (big data government), ethical issues of health and economic measures, intergenerational and international solidarity. It combines political science analyses and data from research on historical pandemics with examples of literary treatments or philosophical treatises to show the paradoxes of a transformed world for whose inhabitants pandemics are a fundamental shared experience.
