Is A Country’s Strength Determined Not Only By Its Military And Economy, But Also By Its Resilience?

Uri Friedman, Defense One/The Atlantic: The Pandemic Is Revealing a New Form of National Power 

In the COVID-19 era, a country’s strength is determined not only by its military and economy, but also by its resilience. Each geopolitical age places a premium on particular forms of national power—seapower and colonial possessions prior to the world wars, nuclear weapons and alliance networks during the Cold War, soft power after the Cold War. 

And the new era ushered in by COVID-19 has done so as well, revealing the salience of “resilient power”: a country’s capacity to absorb systemic shocks, adapt to these disruptions, and quickly bounce back from them. As the scholar Stephen Flynn once told me, the aim of resilience is to design systems not just so they can endure shocks, but also so they can “fail gracefully and recover nicely.” 

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WNU Editor: I would prefer the word culture rather than resilience. Geography also played a significant role in the handling of this pandemic in island countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan to name a few.

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