GEOPOLITICA DELLA PANDEMIA: SOFT E HARD POWER COME CHIAVI DI LETTURA

Abstract

Geopolitics of pandemic: soft and hard power as reading keys. - The Covid 19 pandemic is one of the hardest challenge of the last century. With its m edical emergency, Covid 19 has created a lot of changes in the international relationships and in the geopolitical equilibrium. In this paper, we are attempting to show and analyze global governments’ behavior against the pandemic through the use of both h ard and soft power. We’ll see, particularly, Chinese and American government’s use of hard and soft power. Then we’ll examine how European Union deal with this global emergency. Each nation has carried on different diplomatic strategies to face the pandemic and to promote is own international image. Hard and soft power, in this sense, will be useful also to implement the social and economic policies and to make them effective in the post pandemic phase.