DISUNITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS: COVID-19, GEOPOLITICS AND VACCINE NATIONALISM
Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly
Year: 2022

Geopolitics and vaccine nationalism have been seen as barriers in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic globally. Rich Western nations have nationalized vaccine production and distribution, while vaccines produced by Russia and China have been criticized in the West as lacking scientific rigor. This paper attempts to understand the negative implications of vaccine nationalism and seeks to explain how, in times of crisis, words such as unity and solidarity were replaced by populism, nationalism, and t