Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
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'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
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