GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE? COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN THE POST-HEGEMONIC ERA: FACING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS

Authors

  • DAVID G. MIRANDA Complutense University of Madrid Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54885/SKXA9141

Keywords:

knowledge economy, scientific cooperation, globalization, interdependence, Global Knowledge Index, cluster analysis, COVID-19, pandemic

Abstract

In recent decades, we have witnessed the consolidation of the knowledge society, based on a process of globalization, which promotes the consolidation of the knowledge economy as an emerging paradigm, as well as promoting new dynamics of scientific cooperation, especially from the European Union to the rest of the world. Agreements, summits, and a network of science diplomacy have been set up reflecting the impact of knowledge on new development models. From this process, conceived as a catalyst for value chains based on knowledge intensity, it is possible to glimpse new power conflicts related to other recent conflicts for economic and political hegemony on a global scale. This study aims to analyze countries’ behavior vis-à-vis the global threat of the COVID 19 pandemic, based on the correlation between their ability to face it and their levels of knowledge-based development as a differentiating element in terms of
vulnerability. The results show a process where scientific cooperation has given way to a field of geopolitical competition between the actors of the international system, affecting their levels of vulnerability to global threats. 

Author Biography

  • DAVID G. MIRANDA, Complutense University of Madrid

    David G. MIRANDA has a PhD in Political Science and Master in Contemporary Studies of Latin America
    from the Complutense University of Madrid, He has published part of his scientific production in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, the Institute of the  Americas of France, the University of Guadalajara and the Free University of Brussels, among others. He is a member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), in recent years he served as Director of Research at SEK University (Chile). He is a visiting professor at SEK International University (Ecuador), and currently works as researcher at the Faculty of Education Sciences at University of Playa Ancha (Chile).

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Published

2024-08-01

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice

Section

Original Research