Borders and Security in the Time of Pandemic
Borders and Security in the Time of Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: What do territory and territoriality mean and how are they evaluated in the Covid-19 pandemic era? What are the main schools of thought in IR theory regarding the issues of territoriality and sovereignty, especially about “the function of states in a debordering world?” What does Covid pandemic bring to the interchangeable link between state borders and security? This study deals with the aforementioned questions, trying to understand and explain the multiple gradations of the notion of territoriality in the covid 19 pandemic era. It is the interchangeable link between borders and security and the undisputable function of the former as the most effective mean of inhibiting covid 19 that brings back the debate of the significance of territory “at all times and in all geographical contexts.” Accordingly, the spread of the covid pandemic worldwide, like natural disasters and economic austerity, poses an existential threat to people‟s survival, contradicting with the globalization literature of a borderless and deterritorialized world. In this manner I will discuss the trivial issue of borderless/rebordering world as a logical conclusion of the asymmetric effects of the covid pandemic on all aspects of state structure.

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