Abstract
The United States of America was disproportionally severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current crisis exposed significant flaws in the national health care system and provoked a serious socio-economic crisis. The health care scare overlaps with the ongoing presidential electoral campaign and the extreme political polarization of the country, leading to the politicization of discussions regarding the ways and means of resolving the health care crisis and complicating the process of decision making. The pandemic is also enhancing the autarchic tendencies in the US foreign policy and it’s the increasingly anti-Chinese orientation that became visible during Donald Trump’s White House tenure. Even under these circumstances, the American elites were able to negotiate several stabilization measures designed to deal with the medical and socio-economic aspects of the current crisis. Their willingness and ability to continue such collaboration in the future will have a direct bearing on the US socio-economic and political stability.
Highlights
The United States of America was disproportionally severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic exerts a serious and everincreasing negative influence on countries’ health care systems, economies, and politics worldwide, further aggravating the prolonged crisis of the liberal global order that was formed over the 30 years that have passed since the end of the Cold War
The way the current crisis is resolved will have a direct impact on the state of the world economy and politics as well as the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election campaign, the evolution of the country’s political system, and America’s future role in the world
Summary
The ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic exerts a serious and everincreasing negative influence on countries’ health care systems, economies, and politics worldwide, further aggravating the prolonged crisis of the liberal global order that was formed over the 30 years that have passed since the end of the Cold War. In the US, the current situation is further complicated by the Democratic Party’s primaries and the forthcoming in November 2020 presidential and congressional elections, the attempts of President Donald Trump to reconfigure many aspects of the domestic political system and the basic principles on which the current international economic and political order was formed (ironically, under a strong American leadership), and the fierce resistance of the entrenched elites to these reform attempts. The way the current crisis is resolved will have a direct impact on the state of the world economy and politics as well as the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election campaign, the evolution of the country’s political system, and America’s future role in the world
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