COVID-19 AND THE POLITICAL ISSUES:

MULTILATERALISM, GLOBALISATION, STATE OF EXCEPTION AND DEMOCRATIC EROSION

Abstract

The article aims to provide modest elements for the analysis of political and legal aspects involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. The deductive method is used with analytical-exploratory research and use of bibliographic research tools and recent references collected in electronic sites. The objective is to address three points: multilateralism and globalization, state of exception and democratic crisis, based on three analytical aspects that make up the research problem: Would the pandemic create a disjointion that would wear out globalism and multilateralism or culminate in the end of globalization? ; would the health crisis be a new element that would promote the normalization of States of Exception? and would the advent of the coronavirus pandemic pose a threat to democracy? Research has as a hypothesis to be explored that the COVID-pandemic19 resizes the international scene in relation to the multilateralism drawn up by globalisation and reconfigures the internal scenario in terms of the role of the State in the face of crisis situations and social health upheaval, may have a negative impact on society in endogenous circumstances of democratic erosion.