3. Write diary entry on the topic covid from disease to disaster.
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COVID-19 pandemic’s spread to the United States coincided, more or less, with the anniversary of the Iraq War 17 years ago. Although a war and a pandemic are different experiences, one thing brought back a strong sense of déjà vu for me: the panic in anticipation of a looming “disaster”.
I was a junior college student in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2003 when the United States and its allies prepared to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. There was a sense of optimism about a post-Saddam world among the Kurds,
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In the coming weeks, Perry World House will post regular entries in a “Penn Pandemic Diary” that will record what undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from around Penn are seeing and feeling during the historic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Like many political scientists who study matters related to international security, my work focuses on what are often known as “hard security” topics, such as the causes and conduct of war. Although a growing number of scholars research “non-traditional” security issues like the implications of migration, climate change, and global health, the field remains dominated by “harder” topics, for lack of a better word. Indeed, the syllabi of most undergraduate and graduate international relations and security studies courses feature concepts like deterrence, crisis signaling, terrorism, and balance of power, while less attention is devoted to non-traditional issues like pandemics.