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(According to experts on nuclear terrorism and pandemics, the dangers are real.)
One cannot devise and implement solutions to global financial stability, climate change, cyber terrorism, or pandemics without such cooperation.
While an HIV vaccine would no doubt be a game changer, it would be only one of a diverse range of tools needed to contain one of mankind’s deadliest pandemics.
What is now beyond question is that Yersinia pestis was indeed the pathogen responsible for two of the most destructive pandemics ever.
Plague pandemics were events of mind-boggling ecological intricacy.
Curiously, heightened risk and fears of further disruptions – not just another financial crisis, but also geopolitical instability and pandemics – do not seem to carry much weight in current policy discussions, though the idea has been around.
For example, the UN High Commission for Refugees helps to alleviate the problems of displaced persons, the World Food Program provides assistance to malnourished children, and the World Health Organization supports the public health information systems that are crucial for dealing with threats from pandemics like avian flu.
But there are many other potential pandemics, and many are not even viruses.
Countries with the resources to do so are making resistance plans against pandemics – limited strategies that would protect their own citizens.
Finally, parasites, simple animals that infect us, are already classified as pandemics.
Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity’s front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.
For example, risks stemming from cyberattacks (especially by state actors), pandemics, and certainly financial crises are probably far higher than anyone would like to admit.
International air travel spreads pandemics.
In the case of pandemics, the key is to support countries where outbreaks occur and help those most at risk of infection.
A growing number of citizens in Europe, North America, and the Middle East blame globalization for unemployment, rising inequality, pandemics, and terrorism.
With the rise of transnational issues like climate change, terrorism, pandemics, and cyber crime – brought about by rapid technological progress and social change – power is being diffused not among states, but among a wide range of non-governmental entities.
In a world with ever more pressing challenges – from pandemics to poverty and resource depletion to religious extremists – it is becoming a vital tool of foreign policy.
In order to become better prepared to tackle future pandemics, the world must invest now in strengthening public-health systems, bolstering developing countries’ disease-prevention capacity, and establishing new and flexible financing instruments.
The WEF’s Global Risks report emphasizes the need for robust plans to face the threat of pandemics.
In the meantime, on issues such as climate change, pandemics, terrorism, and financial stability, both an authoritarian China and the US will benefit from cooperation.
In general, transnational threats such as climate change or pandemics can cause damage on a scale equivalent to military conflict.
In such an environment, outbreaks of an old disease (such as cholera) or a new one may lead to new regional and global pandemics.
America, like the rest of us, is vulnerable to climate change, pandemics, and terrorism – challenges that require coordinated global solutions.
Notions of American hegemony and unilateral responses make little sense when most of the serious challenges that countries face today – problems like climate change, pandemics, financial stability, and terrorism – fall outside the control of even the largest countries.
As the report notes, biodiversity is essential to address climate change, ensure long-term food security, and prevent future pandemics.
Moreover, whereas the Trump administration sees no room for cooperation with China, the Biden administration will regard mutually beneficial collaboration on issues such as climate change, pandemics, and nuclear non-proliferation as both desirable and essential.
We face not only the revival of great power rivalry but also multiple global challenges, from pandemics and climate change to nuclear proliferation and terrorism, for which there are no unilateral answers.
Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has eroded the country’s relationships with its allies and impeded its ability to confront increasingly complex global challenges such as pandemics, climate change, nuclear proliferation, democratic backsliding, and inequitable trade practices.
If pandemics threaten national security, for example, then the US will need to invest in a more robust health system while substantially ramping up its engagement in international institutions like the World Health Organization to prepare for the next virus.
Historically, pandemics have arguably brought greater equality.
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