| Resumo | This Working Group (WG) intends to discuss the future international challenges to global governance and International Liberal Order brought by the pandemic and the possible upcoming scenarios arising by that crisis.
Covid-19 brought several developments in International Politics, including the downturn in international cooperation. The current pandemic favored the emergence of new tendencies and strengthened existing ones - as the current global sanitary turmoil is likely to produce a deep re-structuration of the international system in the short run but, according to the observable reality, it is already producing the structural conditions to make it more than a possibility.
This scenario of political and, possibly, ideological separation between the West and a large part of the rest (led by China) has been manifest during the outbreak of the pandemic and, later and still pending, of its management. Unlike the 2008 financial crisis, the world and the multilateral international system proved unsuccessful in tackling the challenge, leading countries to address the emergency on their own.
It can be said that the liberal paradigm on which the current international order has been built is proving ineffective in providing global answers, while regional initiatives taken under the flag of different political cultures are proving more successful in paving the way out of the pandemic for their populations and economies, bringing some relevant inquiries.
How will the world look like tomorrow? Is it correct to frame the scenario in terms of liberal versus non-liberal politics? How will both multilateralism and multilateral practices be affected by the current pandemic? Is the world going to witness the birth of a more inclusive, pluralistic international system, or are things moving on the slope towards a fragmented, segregated world in which ideological rivalry will take place at the expense of global multilateral cooperation? These are some issues of interest of this WG
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