Apocalypse Now? Initial Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
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This paper explores the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic through the framework of existential risks – a class of extreme risks that threaten the entire future of humanity. In doing so, we tease out three lessons: (1) possible reasons underlying the limits and shortfalls of international law, international institutions and other actors which Covid-19 has revealed, and what they reveal about the resilience or fragility of institutional frameworks in the face of existential risks; (2) using Covid-19 to test and refine our prior ‘Boring Apocalypses’ model for understanding the interplay of hazards, vulnerabilities and exposures in facilitating a particular disaster, or magnifying its effects; and (3) to extrapolate some possible futures for existential risk scholarship and governance.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies |
Vol/bind | 11 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 295-310 |
Antal sider | 16 |
ISSN | 1878-1373 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2020 |
ID: 243910684