الاقتصاد العالمي وجائحة COVID-19: تفسير التداعيات واستشراف الآفاق في إطار نظرية الأنساق

الملخص EN

COVID-19 pandemic spreads all over world.

the objective of this study is tracking economic, political and social consequences of the pandemic in selected countries, during period January-June 2020.

we tried explaining these consequences, and clarifying the future challenges.

a distinction was made between two groups of countries most affected by the pandemic, the first group: a group of world countries, namely; China, Iran, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, England, Russia and the USA.

the second group; a group of Arab countries, namely: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.

the data based on statistics of world health organization (WHO), and processed for purpose of statistical presentation and comparison.

moreover, we relied on two approaches for explaining the pandemic’s consequences; descriptive analysis approach, and general systems theory approach.

the results revealed that, in light of current global economic system, the main dilemma for facing the pandemic is subordination of basic services to “profit motive”.

in the context of political system, the increasing globalization and the decline of state’s economic and social role have led to inability of governments to play a major role in facing this type of pandemics.

as well as social system and the concept of “epidemic psychology”, social situation associated with the pandemic can be described as the case of a “risk society”.

in light of the above, it can be said that we are facing a historical moment at the level of global economic system, not only COVID-19 pandemic itself, but also this pandemic represents a revealing circumstance for contradictions and structural crises facing the current civilization with its patterns.