NATO and political intervention during the corona pandemic

Subject Areas : International Relations

Gholamreza Haddad ¹ , Mohammadreza Dadgostar ² , Mohammadhosein Shaverdi ³

1 - Allameh Tabataba'i University
2 - Tehran University
3 - Allameh Tabataba'i University

Received: 2023-11-01 Accepted : 2024-05-27 Published : 2024-12-07

Keywords: &quot, NATO&quot, , &quot, Political Intervention&quot, , &quot, Covid-19 Pandemic&quot, , &quot, Armed Forces&quot, , &quot, Crisis Decision Making&quot, ,

Abstract :

Military/civilian relations have always been the focus of political science studies, and, military intervention in crisis caused by natural disasters has been considered as a different field from conventional but undesirable interventions in civilian affairs. Although the corona pandemic crisis has been different from other conventional natural disasters but affects the normal process of life beyond normal capacities of administrations then can be categorized as natural disasters and in practice military forces in most countries have participated in the management of this global crisis along with the political organization. NATO also played an important role in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. How NATO intervenes in the Corona crisis is a central question that will be answered in this text. The results of this research show that NATO, not as a main actor, but in the form of a facilitator, has tried to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic from entering the stage of a contagious disease into a security crisis. This issue has been the red line of NATO in the issues that happened in the member countries, which has overshadowed the performance of the military forces and the Ministry of Defense of the mentioned countries. Obviously, during the period of spring 2020 to spring 2022, this military security organization will focus its efforts on disease control and the efficient implementation of the quarantine and social distancing policy through the use of executive operations, setting up camps and using logistics, distributing equipment and organizing forces to establish a state of martial law