COVID-19, Global Order and Challenges of Multilateralism: Any Hope for Status Quo?

Abstract

This paper examines COVID-19, the world order, and the difficulties with multilateralism, especially before and immediately after the  outbreak of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and, in particular, the politics surrounding the vaccine and its control, have  made the already precarious character of international governance institutions much more chaotic. As a result, the multilateral order that  had been in place since the conclusion of World War II was shaken. The research illustrates how multilateralism has gradually given  way to a unilateral attitude to global concerns, which has made it very difficult to coordinate cooperative efforts to defeat one of humanity's biggest adversaries of the twenty-first century. It comes to the conclusion that the multilateral system should be defended,  protected, preserved, and supported in order to assure stability, progress, and development. Unilateralism is not combated by greater  unilateralism, but rather by multilateralism.