Is Globalization Responsible of the Wuhan-COVID-19 Worldwide Crisis?
In the past two months’ we experience some of the worse worldwide massive contagious epidemic diseases such as the Wuhan-COVID-19. The Wuhan-COVID-19 is spreading unstoppable globally (WHO, 2020). According to different academics from different fields of research (medical, pharmaceutical, economic, political and social view points) have explained the evolution and negative effects of the Wuhan-COVID-19 on the world economy. Different types of research have been developed and applied to understand and evaluate the Wuhan-COVID-19. All these studies permit to have a better understanding of Wuhan-COVID-19 from a multi-disciplinary perspective (economic, political, medical, biological, sciences, social, and technological). In our research, the single disciplinary analysis is not enough to explain this massive contagious of Wuhan-COVID-19 worlwide. For this reason, this research suggests the study of Wuhan-COVID-19 requests a multi-disciplinary analysis to understand much better the trend and multiple negative effects on different societies and regions around the world. Hence, this research proposes that the Wuhan-COVID-19 crisis is part of the darkness side of the Globalization. Therefore, the next section of this paper is interested to give us a general overview of Globalization respectively.
An Overview of the Globalization Pillars
In the past thirty five years, the whole world has been
experiencing dramatic changes in different areas such as economic,
technological, political and social changes. Many intellectuals in different
research fields in economics, sciences, politics, technology, and sociology
refer to these fast changes as “Globalization”. Globalization started as a
common word among certain high specialized intellectual groups in the 1990’s,
with reference to the dynamic integration and the fast development of new soft
technologies (knowledge and software) and hard technologies (machines and tools
or hardware). Together with the development of massive and accessible prices
transportation systems, mobile telecommunications, and high speed internet.
Subsequently, the uses of the word “Globalization” started
to expand worldwide, until it became used into our common vocabulary. It is no
longer a special vocabulaty used by historians, economists, political
scientists, technological scientists, and sociologists. It is regarded to as
the most relevant socio-political-economic-technological revolution until our
days. Probably, there is no other word that can better define the fundamental
challenges in the post-world modern socio-economic-political-technological in
the end of XX and the beginning of XXI century than “Globalization”. But it was
not until the 1990’s that globalization made its formal consolidation
worldwide. Furthermore, Globalization is a dynamic, complex, and
multidimensional phenomenon taking place simultaneously in different levels and
transforming the way to see and analyze political, social, economic and
technological events in different parts of the world. However, Globalization
embodies particular pillars to support
It is
discernible from the different phases of this paper that as far as
Globalization is concerned, there have been a limited number of studies related
to massive contagious epidemic deseases and Globatization. Such a constraint
compels Globalization as responsible in the genertion massive contagious
epidemic deseases such as Wuhan-COVID-19 worlwide. The weaknesses of
Globalization requests a deep reform on its three pillars such as the
institutional, legal, and political approach of Globalization (institutional
and political reforms); the massive transportations systems (standards sanitary
controls and planning implementation) and the development of information communication
technologies (ICT’s) (full liberalization); the free trade liberalization and
labor mobility (the manufacturing production descentralization from China and
jobs creation in different continents). The above, being the general conclusion
of the paper that led to the high responsibility to the weak pillars of
Globalization in the fast spread of Wuhan-COVID-19 according to this research