Reactions to COVID-19 suggest a resurgence of exclusionary nationalist sentiments, and the decline of social cohesion, wrote RSIS Research Fellow Terri-Anne Teo. The melding of national and global sensibilities may provide a remedy to an otherwise fractious future, she added.

Terri-Anne Teo is a Research Fellow with the Social Resilience Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This commentary by the CENS/FIT (Future Issues & Technology) research cluster is part of an RSIS Series.