Thread by @AntheaERoberts

I spent yesterday writing for my book on #WinnersLosers w/ @nicolas_lamp about the coronavirus and different ways it implicates debates about economic globalisation.

I think it's going to become one of the touchstones of this debates. It can be read in so many different ways-1

There is the #geoeconomic angle which emphasises the problems of concentrated economic interdependence eg Australian higher education reliance on Chinese students - in some cases 70%+ come from China and make up almost a quarter of university budgets.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

There is also the #geoeconomic angle which emphasises US vulnerability in relying on Chinese manufacturing production for more than 80% of its medicines, including 97% of its antibiotics.

washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02…

There is the #EfficiencyvsSecurity issue about globalisation running too lean, relying on just-in-time inventory rather than large stockpiles, which is great for economic efficiency until something goes wrong and there is no resilience

nytimes.com/2020/03/05/bus…

This also links to the more general issue about needing to deal with economic globalisation as a complex system with a hierarchical topography. I'm interested in how states come to understand and manage systemic risks arising from complex interdependence.

brookings.edu/blog/future-de…

There is the #protectionist issue where groups will say this shows why we need to close our borders to foreigners and the diseases they bring with them eg

politico.eu/article/populi…

There's the #Authoritarian issue about whether China's authoritarian approach was a problem (bc the CCP sought to quash free speech re originally letting people know about the problem) or is an advantage (bc the CCP was able to lock down cities and stop the virus spreading).

And so many more. @HeikoBorchert also has a great collection of different narratives about the coronavirus.

linkedin.com/pulse/coronavi…