Soft Power in Times of the Plague: the Winners and Losers of First Wave of COVID-19 (Winter-Summer 2020)

• Autorzy: Katarzyna Pisarska

Warianty tytułu

Soft power w czasach zarazy: zwycięzcy i przegrani pierwszej fali COVID-19 (zima-lato 2020)

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The aim of the article is to identify the soft power winners and losers of the first wave of the global health crisis caused by covid-19 (Winter-Summer 2020); to analyse the factors which have contributed to such outcome; and finally, to extract examples of the best practices, which can serve other states in the next stages of the pandemic. The article argues that there is a correlation between the quality of a country's response to the global health crisis (both domestically and abroad) and a change in international public perceptions of that state. Moreover, the states that gained the most soft power in 2020, have not done so based solely on their political system or past performance. Instead, a key factor was the existing domestic and foreign policy collaborative culture, which resulted in the ability to get everyone behind a common response to the crisis at home, but also to promote global solutions to the crisis abroad. (original abstract)

Celem artykułu jest wyłonienie zwycięzców i przegranych soft power w pierwszej fali światowego kryzysu zdrowotnego wywołanego przez COVID-19 (zima- lato 2020); analiza czynników, które przyczyniły się do takiego wyniku; i wreszcie wyodrębnienie przykładów najlepszych praktyk, które mogą służyć innym państwom w kolejnych etapach pandemii. W artykule argumentuje się, że istnieje korelacja między jakością odpowiedzi kraju na globalny kryzys zdrowotny (zarówno w kraju, jak i za granicą) a zmianą międzynarodowego postrzegania tego państwa przez opinię publiczną. Ponadto państwa, które uzyskały największą miękką siłę w 2020 r., nie zrobiły tego wyłącznie w oparciu o swój system polityczny lub wyniki z przeszłości, ale kluczowym czynnikiem była istniejąca kultura współpracy w polityce wewnętrznej i zagranicznej, która zaowocowała możliwością poparcia wszystkich wspólnymi odpowiedziami na kryzys w kraju, a także promowaniem globalnych rozwiązań kryzysu za granicą. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

COVID-19; Diplomacy; Crisis management; State policy; Pandemic; Soft power

PL

COVID-19; Dyplomacja; Zarządzanie kryzysowe; Polityka państwowa; Pandemia; Miękka siła

• Czasopismo: Sprawy Międzynarodowe
• Rocznik: 2020
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 41--67

Twórcy

autor

Katarzyna Pisarska

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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DOI

10.35757/sm.2020.73.3.10