Mona Kanwal Sheikh (@Monakshh), Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), ““The Corona pandemic will probably be the 9/11 of this decade: a global event that affects us so much that (1/5)
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it will end up expanding and challenging our perception of security, and the way to deal with threats. Suddenly, everyone, every citizen, plays a crucial role in defeating the new threat, and must take up the duty of protecting the nation state - not just the trained (2/5)
vanguard of soldiers. The current crisis will also alert us towards the significance of transnational threats that we can’t really detect with drones and spies. The pandemic leaves many ripples in the pond, and will undoubtedly leave an impact on many dimensions of global (3/5)
politics: it justifies autocratic crisis-policies overruling principles of democracy, liberalism and human rights, reinvigorates inequality and sectarian nationalism, questioning the internationalists among us and our ability to unite across borders when it really matters.(4/5)
Not least it provides ideological ammunition about the approaching apocalypse to millennial movements, hence boosting rather than overruling other types of security threats.” (5/5)
