Osmania University Virtual Conference on Geopolitics in Post COVID Era

ABOUT CONFERENCE

COVID-19 pandemic has put an unimaginable challenge to the human existence on the planet. It has caused wide spread disruption in all the existing systems. The developed countries including those superpowers have got severely affected and are reeling under the negative impact of the Covid-19 on their economies, health systems and many other areas. The world leaders, scientific community and intelligence agencies are fighting over the origin and the spread of the novel virus and are frantically striving for the remedies like the development of vaccine and treatment. Is it a failure of world leadership or human scientific concern?. The pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented human misery, social disruption and economic devastation all over the globe. It is absolutely unbiased and impartial in pushing every person on the planet to narrow their focus on how to get on with the day to day life. Across the world including the United States are trying to curb the economic, social and geo-political consequences of this pandemic by providing relief measures for their economies. The lockdown has made both global and local economies under suspension. In anticipation to the public health crisis, countries across the world have closed their borders in order to prevent the spread of the deadly virus and protect themselves from the ill effects of the pandemic. The World Health Organization has already warned the pandemicinduced crisis of the public health that we face today will inevitably become an economic crisis in the days to come. On the other hand it may be a threat to the national security as well. The other side of the coin, the COVID-19 pandemic seems as a “make or break” challenge for the EU. The Member countries of the EU have been most affected by the devastating consequences of the corona virus which leads to the dwindling of solidarity among them. Other countries have called upon for more effective coordination through NATO, G-7 and G-20 etc. It can be said that Corona virus is resulting in the new crop of instabilities that potentially has the power to rearrange the current geo-political arena and create new power blocks and shift the balances and consequently helps in forging new alliances and creating new enemies. As it happens with the crisis of this scale, the pandemic will aggravate some of the negative developments such as shrinking of global economy, state collapse, massive international and internal migrations, food security and lack of minimum living standards etc. Moreover the democratic and emerging countries like India have seized the momentum and emerged as the international benefactors by sending the medical equipment, supplies, and human resources to the needy and affected countries.

The following are the sub themes:

Geopolitical Implications
Mapping a Pandemic: The Geopolitics of Corona virus
International Diplomacy
Geo-economics and Ongoing Dynamics
Economical , social and political concerns
Environmental challenges
Scientific & Human Potentials
Vaccine Wars
Military and Security Issues
Role of the fourth estate
Implications for Global Order
Policy Recommendations

Important Dates:

Last Date of Submission of Abstract: 22-08-2020
Intimation of Abstract Acceptance: 26-8-2020
Last Date of Registration fee payment through Online Transaction on or before 06-09-2020
Full Paper Submission (through e-mail): On or before 30-09-2020

UGC-Human Resource Development Centre

(Academic Staff College)
Osmania University
Opp.Law College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 500007-Telangana State (TS), India

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