Özet:

Global crises, according to the nature of the crisis, are crises that greatly affect, change or transform the international system. One of these crises is the epidemics/pandemics that are as ancient as human history and have very serious economic, political, social and social impacts on the international system. Since the 14th century, the epidemic of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been observed in different periods, such as the Ebola, Flower Disease, Honeymoon, African Sheep Epidemic and Spanish Flu, is also a global crisis that will have a very serious impact on the international system. First, COVID-19 is the first universal catastrophe of the twenty-first century, caused by the new type of coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), which was to appear in the Chinese state of Wuhan in December 2019 and rapidly spread throughout the world in a short period of time, and although it appeared as a global health problem, it has affected all areas of life from the health sector to supply chains, from economic relations to social relations, from global politics to international relations. This crisis, which makes the problems more apparent in the current order and adds new discussions to these issues, represents the first breakthrough point of the twenty-first century, is able to transform both national and regional and global politics. With the COVID-19 crisis, the contradictions within the neo-liberal order have been revealed under the current conditions and a systemic transformation has become inevitable. Though it is difficult to make clear provisions about the scale and the status that this transformation will evolve, the developments from the beginning of the pandemic say that the main dynamics that form the new world order will be the states. The post-COVID-19 period gives signs of a less global world where strong states, social needs instead of individual freedoms, and national actions instead of international cooperation will be heavier. This study evaluates the potential political and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the international system; it states that COVID-19 is a vital test for national, transnational and international actors involved in the system, and the most successful actors out of the test by proofing its existence are the national states.

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