Abstract
This paper diagnoses the interaction and behaviour of states in the international system in the light of the blush of global pandemic and potential security threat. Globally, humankind continue to witness slough diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola, Human Immune Virus/Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), H5N1 (avian/Bird flu), Swine fever, Malaria and in recent times, coronavirus (COVID–19) which has been declared by the World Health Organization (W.H.O) as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, states with financial wherewithal or capacity have hastily dispatched airplanes and ships to evacuate compatriots from afflicted states as both protective and preventive mechanisms. Since the COVID-19 virus spread to other parts of the world, it is axiomatic that the evacuation mechanism could serve as a conduit for the ‘importation’ of the virus from affected countries to the countries purporting to be providing safe haven for the evacuees. Undoubtedly, the evacuations increased the geopolitical spread of viruses or microbes around the world. The study argues that states need to join forces scientifically and financially to nib the spread of infectious diseases in the bud by dealing with the menace in the country of origin as a preventive measure to eliminate or minimize spread of viruses or diseases.
Highlights
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-COV2 is the real name of the current pandemic popularly refers to as Coronavirus or COVID-19
This study summarized effects of coronavirus on global security into a four-fold schema
The world is characterized with epidemic of pandemics that recur in almost every year
Summary
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-COV2 (or SARSCOV-2) is the real name of the current pandemic popularly refers to as Coronavirus or COVID-19. The draconian policies (such as lockdown of cities, shops, sporting activities, aviation etc) adopted by many European states to control COVID-19 have had debilitating effects on the local economy (e.g. toll on businesses, unemployment, stark poverty, leading to a distortion of market equilibrium and anomalies in the operations of price mechanism for goods and services) with concomitant threat to national security It is inappropriate for global actors and statesmen to seek to tackle a global pandemic of global concern like coronavirus through the resort to evacuation as the first option. Researcher’s observation of the perfunctory behaviour and attitude of Western and European states since the outbreak of the pandemic Secondary literature such as monographs, reports, and journal articles on infectious diseases of public health were utilized. These pieces of information were incorporated into the study and scrutinized for analytical purposes
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