Essay: The Impending Super-Power Rivalry
The Impending Super-Power Rivalry Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has killed tens of thousands and afflicted many more across the world. Even developed nations are scrambling to contain the pandemic and Italy and Spain are grasping at straws to mitigate the economic losses and human suffering already inflicted by the pandemic. At such trying times, an idealist would have expected to see a coming together of countries, shedding their differences for the time being, and taking collective efforts to weather this maelstrom of a crisis. The institutional framework exists in the form of the United Nations and its numerous subsidiary and specialised wings. After all, it was precisely to fight these common problems that the UN was founded. Indeed, the Coronavirus provides a much-needed recipe for global cooperation and camaraderie. However, what we have witnessed so far is not collective action with a common purpose, but distinct and assertiv