Bratersky Maxim Vladimirovich – Sc.D. in Political Sciences, Leading Researcher, Head of Sector, Department of Europe and America INION RAS; Professor, National Research University «Higher School of Economics»
The planet has been living with the COVID-19 pandemic for almost two years, and by this time (December 2021), 267 183 734 were infected, 5 271 698 died, and 8 251 093 090 doses of vaccines were administered. The COVID-19 pandemic is not the most tragic case in the history of modern civilization. According to estimates, between 17,4 million and 100 million people died in 1918–1919 from Spanish flu, though some countries like the United States suffered more this time. What differs the current pandemic from the epidemics which hit humanity a hundred years earlier is its political and economic consequences, the strong reaction of states and international capital to it, its devastating effect on the global and national economies, as well as the correction of the formerly liberal domestic and foreign policy of many countries to a more rigid if not an authoritarian one. On one hand, this article offers a general overview of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy with an accent on sectors that suffered the most; on other hand, – attempts to look at the general development strategies of great powers, which were amended due to the pandemic.
consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic effects of the pandemic, social effects of the pandemic, USA, EU, China, Russia
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