Pandemic Narratives in the Asia-Pacific: COVID-19 and the Contest over Global Status

亚太地区的流行病叙事：COVID-19 和全球地位之争

• 批准号: 22K01362
• 负责人: LEHENY DAVID
• 金额: $ 2.66万
• 依托单位: Waseda University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K01362/
• 关键词: Politics; COVID-19; Pandemic; Grand Strategy; Narrative; Constructivism; International Relations; Status; Political Science; Global Status; International Politics; Coronavirus

This was a year for foundational work on the project, largely in collecting resources related to grand strategy, the politics of the pandemic, COVID-19 strategies in individual countries, and arranging for suitable research assistance. This has been important for several reasons, but mostly because COVID-19 represented a fundamentally new factor in international relations, as well as profound risk and opportunity particularly in the Asia-Pacific. Its long-term effects might ultimately be viewed as minimal, especially if no country can credibly claim to be a singular "success" story, but the competition to build narratives has been fierce.Among three of the countries that are central to the project, major shifts in policies and debates about the pandemic have been transformational: the implementation of the National Preparedness Plan in the US in 2022, the relaxation of travel restrictions and other advisories in Japan, and the rapid change, following a catastrophic wave of infections, from a "zero COVID" to more flexible containment policies in China. All of these will bear scrutiny in the coming years.The key goal has been to collect documentation and scholarship on the topic, both to prepared the literature review that will accompany any published outcomes and also to establish the nature of debates and priorities especially among policy actors often engaged in narrative construction.

今年是该项目基础工作的一年，主要是收集与大战略、流行病政治、各个国家的 COVID-19 战略相关的资源，并安排适当的研究援助。出于多种原因，这一点很重要，但主要是因为 COVID-19 代表了国际关系中的一个全新因素，以及深刻的风险和机遇，特别是在亚太地区。它的长期影响最终可能会被视为微乎其微，特别是如果没有一个国家可以可信地声称自己是一个独特的“成功”故事，但构建叙事的竞争一直很激烈。在该项目的三个核心国家中，关于这一流行病的政策和辩论的重大转变是变革性的：美国在 2022 年实施了国家防范计划，日本放宽了旅行限制和其他建议，以及灾难性浪潮之后的迅速变化。感染，从“零新冠病毒”到中国更灵活的遏制政策。 所有这些都将在未来几年受到审查。主要目标是收集有关该主题的文件和学术成果，既准备与任何已发表结果一起的文献综述，又确定辩论和优先事项的性质，特别是在政策方面演员经常参与叙事建构。