In the COVID-19 era, a country’s strength is determined not only by its military and economy, but also by its resilience.
Each geopolitical age places a premium on particular forms of national power—seapower and colonial possessions prior to the world wars, nuclear weapons and alliance networks during the Cold War, soft power after the Cold War.
And the new era ushered in by COVID-19 has done so as well, revealing the salience of “resilient power”: a country’s capacity to absorb systemic shocks, adapt to these disruptions, and quickly bounce back from them. As the scholar Stephen Flynn once told me, the aim of resilience is to design systems not just so they can endure shocks, but also so they can “fail gracefully and recover nicely.”
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WNU Editor: I would prefer the word culture rather than resilience. Geography also played a significant role in the handling of this pandemic in island countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan to name a few.
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I agree culture, but the writer of the article had to make money so you have the added fluff.
The map in the blog post is wrong and not int he underlying articles.
Why is Mongolia for example so light? Because they are in deepest darkest Asia and the map maker knows very little about them? Why is Greenland light colored? Because Eskinmos? Coming at it sideways I watched a fishing series starring Jeremy Wade. The purpose of the series was fishing not culture. But some cultural things bleed over. It does not seem weak to me. I have read articles about Greenland having troubles with alcohol or this or that. I can find such stories about any country.
South Africa is dark red? Why? It has a 15% to 25% HIV rate. Seems like a heavily burdnered country. It also has large stress lines. There are number of South Africans who might say otherwise. We know them form Hollywood and other industries. I note that they all live outside of South Africa. They come form South Africa, say good things about it or nothing at all, and they never go back except maybe for a short visit.
The map of China is wrong. How is one province dark red and the rest light red? Should it not be more of a checkerboard pattern? Someone hand waved that China part of the map.
Also why are European countries considered good? They have no go areas. I think 1/3rd to 1/2 the map is based on wishful thanking.
Resilience is a part of a culture and ot is a part of individuals who are mentally, spiritually, and physically healthy. We Americans have thus far endured a very dangerous virus, a brutal government response that has been and continues to be much worse than the virus, rioting and looting that apoears calibrated to maximize the pain of those targeted yet we've survived and our economy is growing again!! I'd say we have been extraordinarily resilient!!
Yet Uri Friedman a DC based journalist whose likeky pulling down a salary well into six figures, has benefits and a fat pension that hasn't been affected and far exceeds that which 99+% of Americans likeky will ever have is going to lecture us about resilience and accuse us of falling short. I highly doubt he in his safe abd secure cocoon could endure 1/10 of what most Americans have had to deal with. This arrogant pr!ck needs to be gone from us!!
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