TITLE:
COVID-19’s Impacts and the End of Globalization?
AUTHORS:
Benjamin Mwadi Makengo
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19’s Impacts, End of Globalization, Humanity’s Strategies against COVID-19, Humanity’s Better Survival in the Face of COVID-19
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
19,
2021
ABSTRACT: With the COVID-19’s impacts to humanity, some have quickly shouted, believed
and thought abusively to the end of globalization. But in this paper, following
to the dimension of the strategic approach of analysis, tinged with a bit of
globalism, I propose to explain why globalization could not end with the
COVID-19’s impacts. In total, I advance successively throughout this paper,
five (5) core arguments, which together ostensibly support my central point, pointing to the impossibility of arriving at the
end of globalization with the COVID-19’s impacts. These five (5) core
arguments are: COVID-19 as a pro-globalization
messenger: “You are living in a global village” (i), Virus Complex nature (ii),
Nationalism and Unilateralism as COVID-19’s counter-anti-dote
strategies (iii), COVID-19’s Impacts Nature on Social-economic activities (iv),
and the Global Complex Interdependence (v). And instead of shouting to the end
of globalization, humanity should rather seek to think about, understand and
internalize the different lessons that COVID-19 has just come to give it—for
its best survival. Otherwise, disaster is coming.