The COVID-19 pandemic is not merely a medical crisis, but a major, multi-faceted policy
challenge. The pandemic has affected all aspects of life: the economy, education, mental
well-being, work, human relationships, food security, infrastructure, etc.
Choose an aspect/industry that you are familiar with (due to professional expertise) and
write an op-ed explaining the impacts of COVID-19 on that aspect of life/industry. Some
possible topics include:
• The future of travel in a post-COVID world
• COVID-19 and the future of higher education
• Building a resilient Saudi economy in the post-COVID world
You should choose a topic on which you are able to comment confidently with some
authority. Think of this as an opportunity for you to inform and shape public opinion on the
policy issue of your choice
The COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems, the world of work, and the travel industry. The arrival of COVID-19 may have changed the travel industry forever. In the past decade, the travel industry has weathered many storms, including the ash cloud crisis in 2010 and the impact of the tragic events of 9/11. So when COVID hit, there was the awareness that it was going to hurt, but it was approached with a certain amount of resilience. The recovery period for airlines may create a decrease in availability resulting in a potential price increase, both for the leisure market and particularly for business travelers.
ocal advantages or expenses on account of basic liberties is additionally muddled by the encroachment of homegrown sway that such settlements address. The contention between the expenses to state power and the advantages of marking such arrangements should be disclosed to decide why states will ignore such obstruction in their homegrown issues. Notwithstanding the British government being against such obstruction in the British homegrown framework and having significant second thoughts about sanctioning the CAT, they did as such in any case. This postulation will add to the discussion about inspirations driving sanction of basic liberties deals by distinguishing the purposes for Britain’s approval of the CAT notwithstanding critical contradicting factors.
Pivotal inquiries in regards to the endorsement of common liberties deals have partitioned scholars into various particular gatherings. Pragmatist researchers see states joining such deals through instrumental self-intrigued comfort, making money saving advantage examination dependent principally upon material impetuses. Judicious institutionalists, while concurring with the case that states carry on of personal circumstance, see that arrangement adherence can address a drawn out inclination for restriction. These scholars may likewise perceive the significance of notoriety in a functionalist sense, by which stable assumptions for an entertainer can assist with advancing collaboration and material advantages. Liberal researchers feature the significance of homegrown cycles, and strain by NGOs, residents and standard business visionaries. At long last, constructivist hypotheses base on the social setting of shared emotional understandings, and some feature the manner by which at minimum a few kinds of states could confirm truly, as they have disguised the standards that such arrangements standardize. Other constructivist clarifications look to cognizant pretending, as standards oblige conduct in any event, when entertainers don’t completely trust in them. This last clarification looks both at inconvenience about being conflicted in relation to a specific friend bunch and the effect on Britain’s societal position. Commonly constructivist worries about status and personality consequently play into the more extensive worldwide governmental issues of social contest.
Settling this discussion about sanction isn’t just muddled by the previously mentioned sway expenses and absence of retaliatory rebelliousness, however by the classification of the cycle through which navigation happens. Reaching expansive determinations concerning why states acquiesce to common liberties settlements is problematized by the absence of information. This issue is compounded by the personal association between two cycles that should be kept logically and transiently unmistakable: the choice to endorse and the choice to go along. While contemplations of consistence without a doubt influence responsibility, this equal relationship should be isolated to decide the primary drivers for confirmation.