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ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. Quite appropriately, the pandemic has been declared a non-traditional security (NTS) threat in many countries in Europe and Asia. Beyond its detrimental effect on public health, COVID-19 is testing th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7954680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33746661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8 |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. Quite appropriately, the pandemic has been declared a non-traditional security (NTS) threat in many countries in Europe and Asia. Beyond its detrimental effect on public health, COVID-19 is testing the international resolve to cooperate and represents a particularly tricky challenge to regionalism. Due to the nature of pandemics, regional pandemic management is imperative. However, the two most successful regional organisations, the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), have not been able to match the resolve of their individual member states, and there is a substantial gap between timely and robust national pandemic management and inadequacy at the regional level. This is a paradox that merits further investigation. To what extent and why diverged early national and early regional responses to COVID-19? This article identifies a causal relationship between robust national pandemic management as a result of early securitisation and ensuing paralysis on regional level, a process which I call the ‘selffulfilling prophecy of realism’—a vicious cycle of national self-help responses paralysing regional cooperation. This article contributes early to the impact of COVID-19 on regionalism by analysing EU and ASEAN pandemic management efforts, investigating what has hindered or facilitated successful regional cooperation and identifying room for meaningful interregionalism. |
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spelling | pubmed-79546802021-03-15 ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism Kliem, Frederick Asia Eur J Original Paper The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. Quite appropriately, the pandemic has been declared a non-traditional security (NTS) threat in many countries in Europe and Asia. Beyond its detrimental effect on public health, COVID-19 is testing the international resolve to cooperate and represents a particularly tricky challenge to regionalism. Due to the nature of pandemics, regional pandemic management is imperative. However, the two most successful regional organisations, the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), have not been able to match the resolve of their individual member states, and there is a substantial gap between timely and robust national pandemic management and inadequacy at the regional level. This is a paradox that merits further investigation. To what extent and why diverged early national and early regional responses to COVID-19? This article identifies a causal relationship between robust national pandemic management as a result of early securitisation and ensuing paralysis on regional level, a process which I call the ‘selffulfilling prophecy of realism’—a vicious cycle of national self-help responses paralysing regional cooperation. This article contributes early to the impact of COVID-19 on regionalism by analysing EU and ASEAN pandemic management efforts, investigating what has hindered or facilitated successful regional cooperation and identifying room for meaningful interregionalism. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-03-13 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7954680/ /pubmed/33746661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kliem, Frederick ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title | ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title_full | ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title_fullStr | ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title_full_unstemmed | ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title_short | ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
title_sort | asean and the eu amidst covid-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7954680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33746661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8 |
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