International Trade Norms in the Age of Covid-19 Nationalism on the Rise?

作     者：Nicolas Albertoni Carol Wise 

作者机构：Department of Political Science&International RelationsUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesUSA 

出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第14卷第1期

页      面：41-66页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学] 

主　　题：China USA World Trade Organization Non-tariff barriers Novel corona virus Nationalism Globalization 

摘      要：Simultaneous with the rise of trade protectionism in the twenty-first century has been a resurgence in nationalist politics,most notably in the USA,the UK,and parts of the *** developments in international and US trade policy,including Washington’s launch of a full-fledged trade war against China in March 2018,have converged disastrously with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in November 2019 and the onset of a worldwide *** the status of the USA as the world’s hegemon since 1945,what is new here is the effort of the Trump administration to abdicate US leadership,-jettison longstanding alliances,and turn back the clock on the country’s close integration with the world ***,greatly reduced flows of goods,services,and people have translated into radically reduced global growth,widespread business disruptions,and high ***,the White House has refused to recognize the severity of the pandemic and has undermined the precautions of the US science *** argue that these multiple shocks constitute a major critical juncture on par with what the world community faced in ***,in the twenty-first century we have seen that high levels of economic uncertainty and political instability have superseded the long-held notion that international interdependence would pull the world community through tough times such as *** the triple whammy of a destructive trade war,deadly pandemic,and secular decfine of US leadership trigger a new generation of policy innovation and institution building on par with the post-1945 era?In terms of the global trade regime,it would be difficult to imagine a buoyant recovery of the world economy in the absence of a serious reckoning with the pattern of norm erosion that we identify here.