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174678
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The global threat of the coronavirus pandemic has forced policy makers to react quickly with totally new policy‐making approaches under conditions of uncertainty. This article focuses on such crisis‐driven policy learning, examining how the experiences of China and South Korea as early responder states influenced the subsequent coronavirus crisis management in Germany. The first reaction of the German core executive was the quick concentration of decision‐making power at the top of the political hierarchy. Asserting the prerogatives of the executive included the radical simplification of the relationship between politics, law and science. State actors took emergency measures by recourse to a single piece of legislation—the ‘infection protection law’ (Infektionsschutzgesetz)—overriding other elements of the legal order. They also limited the government’s use of scientific expertise to a small number of advisors, thereby cutting short debates about the appropriateness or otherwise of the government’s crisis measures. Finally, German actors failed to understand that some of the earlier Chinese and Korean responses required a precondition—namely public willingness to sacrifice privacy for public health—that is absent in the German case.
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179137
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The outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in Europe and the Middle East, in March 2020, caught the Israeli government and health authorities by surprise, unprepared for the scale and gravity of the incoming pandemic. In its efforts to provide fast and effective crisis management, and faced with a rapidly growing number of people infected with the coronavirus, the Israeli government turned to its Intelligence Community. Israel’s IC has a strong and long tradition as a key element within the structure of the state, and although ordinarily engaged in security and counterterrorism tasks, it was able to quickly adapt its considerable capacities to make a substantial contribution in the fight against the coronavirus.
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179243
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The two biggest stories of 2020 were South Korea’s successful response to the coronavirus crisis and the lack of progress in the denuclearization of North Korea. South Korea was able to contain the spread of the coronavirus mainly due to aggressive tracing and testing. There has been no substantial progress on the denuclearization of North Korea. Macroeconomic performance in 2020 virtually came to a halt amid the pandemic. South Korea’s GDP shrank considerably and shows no signs of rebounding.
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