Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

Updated 10/19/2020: Urgent information on the Covid vaccine 19

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Robert Kaplan said: “The second phase of globalization is different.  Globalization 2.0 is about separating the globe into great-power blocs with their own burgeoning militaries and separate supply chains, about the rise of autocracies, and about social and class divides that have engendered nativism and populism, coupled with middle-class angst in Western democracies. For some, it is a story about new and re-emerging global divisions, more friendly to pessimists “ - 

As we expect, Corona will be the most important political and economic event that will launch most of the potential geopolitical unrest in the next decade.  Therefore, we hope that the world will have an opportunity to set a new model for globalization and establish an alternative international system that pushes the economies of countries towards a solidarity and equitable globalization for the welfare of mankind, and also to reform what corrupt neoliberalism has shown that it has failed to save the world from the epidemic, and to adopt sustainable development rules in facing various environmental and epidemiological threats that the world may face in the future, and protecting the gains of democracy that are at risk due to emergencies and in fact, globalization was already in decline well before the outbreak, having reached its peak before the 2008 global financial crisis and having never recovered since then.

The pandemic will certainly highlight the risks inherent in overdependence on global supply chains, prompt a renationalization of production, and put stress on the notion of international interdependence. The likely result is an acceleration of changes that have long been in motion toward a new, different, and more limited form of globalization.

In fact, the challenge in the future is to take the international order in a right direction by regulating and attenuating the burdens of globalization, will require stronger international cooperation.  The threat of the pandemic has created a global crisis, it is crucial that the world create mechanisms to respond to disease through effective international cooperation.