The outbreak of COVID-19 and only two years later of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, are apparently two very different types of crises. In reality, the combined and unprecedented effect they had on the international sphere brought out substantial similarities. The fact that international relations were almost entirely channeled on the level of foreign aid policies constitutes an excellent indicator for a political-institutional analysis comparing the context of two different crises. The first part of this article reviews the peculiarities of interstate aid in the pandemic and the war in Ukraine; while the second compares the two crises precisely from the perspective of the public aid that characterised them, highlighting the common aspects they share. It also emerges how in the pandemic and in the war an epochal turning point in aid policies was marked, introducing an unprecedented new type of wide-ranging (military, financial, political, etc.) Interventionist Aid, strongly oriented to conditioning the outcome of the crisis in which it operates, new unregulated practices of Aid and Aidisation of Weapons.
"Aid, Virus, War - International Aid Between Covid-19 and War in Ukraine (2020-2023)"
I. Pellicciari
2024
Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 and only two years later of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, are apparently two very different types of crises. In reality, the combined and unprecedented effect they had on the international sphere brought out substantial similarities. The fact that international relations were almost entirely channeled on the level of foreign aid policies constitutes an excellent indicator for a political-institutional analysis comparing the context of two different crises. The first part of this article reviews the peculiarities of interstate aid in the pandemic and the war in Ukraine; while the second compares the two crises precisely from the perspective of the public aid that characterised them, highlighting the common aspects they share. It also emerges how in the pandemic and in the war an epochal turning point in aid policies was marked, introducing an unprecedented new type of wide-ranging (military, financial, political, etc.) Interventionist Aid, strongly oriented to conditioning the outcome of the crisis in which it operates, new unregulated practices of Aid and Aidisation of Weapons.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
