Covid-19 Impact On Multidimensional Security In The Western Hemisphere

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic impact on multidimensional security, a concept from the Declaration on Security of the Americas in 2003, which seeks to analyze the topic of security in a holistic and integral way. The multidimensional security concept seeks to comprehensively address issues involving traditional threats, transnational organized crime, asymmetric threats and social and environmental vulnerabilities (poverty and exclusion, natural and man-made disasters, HIV-AIDS and other diseases). Thus, the work analyzes the impacts of the pandemic in the Western Hemisphere related to social and environmental vulnerabilities (health problems), transnational organized crime (drugs and arms trafficking, corruption and money laundering), asymmetric threats (cybersecurity) and traditional threats (violations to the territory and sovereignty). Therefore, it was possible to observe that the American hemisphere suffered the effects of the pandemic more sharply, mainly due to social inequality and the absence of strong institutions.