This text assesses global governance and international cooperation in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic considering deglobalization. Issues with the functioning of global governance have highlighted flaws and gaps in the international cooperative architecture. The challenges arise from the legal nature of the WHO and its norms, multipolarity growth, institutional inertia, complexity of problems, and fragmentation. The aim of this article is to showcase these challenges and enable new perspectives of successful cooperation.
The COVID-19 Pandemic in a Time of Deglobalization: Challenges and Perspectives for Global Governance and International Cooperation
- February 9, 2021
- by Liliana Lyra Jubilut & Angela Limongi Alvarenga Alvez

Liliana Lyra Jubilut has a PhD and a Masters’ in International Law from Universidade de São Paulo and an LLM in International Legal Studies from the New York University School of Law. She was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of London (Refugee Law Initiative). She is a professor of the post-graduate program in Law of Universidade Católica de Santos.
Angela Limongi Alvarenga Alves has a PhD in State Law from Universidade de São Paulo. She was a visiting researcher at Durham University under the supervision of David Held. She is undertaking a post-doctorate at Universidade de São Paulo, where she is also a reader in the State Law Department.
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