Rethinking Security: For What and For Whom in a Post-COVID World

Oscar Mateos is Professor of International Relations and researcher at GLOBALCODES, Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.Sergio Caballero is University professor, Director of the Master in IR and Business Diplomacy and Director of the Chair UNESCO at the University of Deusto, Spain.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. A new interregnum? Hegemonic crisis and global insecurity.- 3. Ontological security dynamics and the evolution of European integration. The case of the Covid-19 pandemic.- 4. COVID-19: Transition from Slow Violence to Spectacular Violence. 5. Pandemic politics and the Social Shield: a just securitisation approach to COVID-19.- 6. Making the Exceptional Normal: Biopolitical Care and Control in Post-Pandemic Migration Government in the Canary Islands.- 7. Between Solidarity and Diffuse Securitisation: Spain’s Development Cooperation and the Security–Development–Health Nexus During COVID-19.- 8.- ICTs and young people: perceptions of security and risk concerning the use of mobile devices in educational settings.- 9.Desecuritisation and illiberal indignation in El Roto’s Covid-19 editorial cartoons.- 10. The pandemic, the state, and society. Performing state sovereignty during the first months of the pandemic in Spain and Italy.- 11. Spain and Argentina: same pandemic, similar policies, different outcomes.- 12. When Democracy is Tested: Covid-19, Security Challenges, and Institutional Legitimacy in Brazil and Portugal.- 13. Khakiwashing as a visual instrumentalization of Armed Forces during COVID-19: the cases of Bukele in El Salvador and Bolsonaro in Brazil.- 14. Conclusions: Planetary crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and emancipatory security.