Welcome to the Future! This is a Global Security Studies and International Relations How-to-Guide first of all for my students to finish these last six (6) weeks of the semester strong - while making sense of it all: Learning to better understand our interdependent 21st Century Brave New World - in Real Time. Secondly, it is also a virtual space to explore the Future of Multilateral, Global Cooperation, Transnationalism and other Human Security forms of Tomorrow.
WEEK 2 - Where are we going from Here - The Many Tales of Wuhan City
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The Many Tales of Wuhan After the Pandemic: Courtesy of the China Global Television Network
A YouTube video posted April 8, 2020 by the CGTN (China Global Television Network). With a light show at midnight April 8, 2020, the Chinese government celebrated Wuhan's entering its first day post-lockdown. Wuhan, the Chinese city hardest hit by the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, started lifting outbound travel restrictions from Wednesday April 8, after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Russian Army to Send Coronavirus Help to Italy The Russian military will start sending medical help to Italy from Sunday to help it to battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Putin spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday, the Kremlin said, adding that the Russian leader had offered his support and help in the form of mobile disinfection vehicles and specialists to aid the worst hit Italian regions. Italy recorded a jump in deaths from the coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. The Russian Defense Ministry said that military transport planes would deliver eight mobile brigades of military medics, special disinfection vehicles and other medical equipment to Italy from Sunday. Russia and the 2020 World Picture: March 1918 - 4th All-Russian Congress of Soviets. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Post-Great Pandemic 2020 Surveillance State? Will we see the rise of the post-Great Pandemic 2020 surveillance state? Contact Tracing is increasingly understood in Europe, the U.S. and Asia as a critical tool to prevent future pandemics. What would this mean? Human Security or Big Brother 2.0? Or: what is the new in-between? According to the NYTimes April 10, 2020, "Apple and Google said they were building software into smartphones that would tell people if they were in recent contact with someone who was infected with the virus." Apple and Google Team Up to ‘Contact Trace’ the Coronavirus "The technology giants said they were teaming up to release the tool within several months, building it into the operating systems of the billions of iPhones and Android devices around the world. That would enable the smartphones to constantly log other devices they get close to, enabling “contact tracing” of the disease. With the tool, infected people would notify a pub...
The Yellow Peril and the 'Fear of the Other:" We've been Here Before (Photo WikiCommons) "As the coronavirus upends American life, Chinese-Americans face a double threat. Not only are they grappling like everyone else with how to avoid the virus itself, they are also contending with growing racism in the form of verbal and physical attacks. Other Asian-Americans — with families from Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar and other places — are facing threats, too, lumped together with Chinese-Americans by a bigotry that does not know the difference. In interviews over the past week, nearly two dozen Asian-Americans across the country said they were afraid — to go grocery shopping, to travel alone on subways or buses, to let their children go outside. Many described being yelled at in public — a sudden spasm of hate that is reminiscent of the kind faced by American Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...
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