From Internationalism to Nationalism

Abstract The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series difficult questions. Are human right? Should patents be enforced in way that puts people the global South behind queue? These questions are not new; world struggled these ethical dilemmas during HIV-AIDS pandemic at end twentieth century, when governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical corporations for right to essential life-saving drugs. Can same strategies mobilized deal inequalities distribution vaccine? This article demonstrates technological and geopolitical shift last two decades hinder solidarities actualized pandemic. Instead, Banerjee argues present, Euro-American trying reverse some key political visions victories internationalism, exploiting urgency crisis put place new vaccine apartheid.