"In short, Covid-19 will create a world that is less open, less prosperous and less free."

Intensifying great power rivalry in a fractured, damaged, poorer world might indeed be the future that awaits, Ikenberry suggested. But it was equally possible that, "over the longer term, the democracies will come out of their shells to find a new type of pragmatic and protective internationalism".
In other words, after the nightmare, a fresh start.


新コロ後の世界はどうなっているのか？

But there is also a more pessimistic view, typified by Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University. "The pandemic will strengthen the state and reinforce nationalism. Governments of all types will adopt emergency measures to manage the crisis, and many will be loath to relinquish these new powers when the crisis is over," he wrote in Foreign Policy magazine.


In sum, it is a story about new and re-emerging global divisions."

Intensifying great power rivalry in a fractured, damaged, poorer world might indeed be the future that awaits, Ikenberry suggested. But it was equally possible that, "over the longer term, the democracies will come out of their shells to find a new type of pragmatic and protective internationalism".
In other words, after the nightmare, a fresh start.

新コロ制圧、緩和の緊急事態のため、権力が国家に集中、ナショナリズムの台頭、反移民、反グローバリズム、世界の分断、弱小国を救済している余裕もなし。

もっとも、長期的にはその悪夢の後、新しい国際協力主義、国際主義が生まれるかもしれない、と。