Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity
The paper highlights the phenomenon of great powers competition and bio security and focuses on the impact of great power competition on bio security. The paper identifies how the bio security vulnerabilities are increased to competition among great powers. The research then explains how states have been involved in biological and chemical warfare historically and in great world wars. It also focuses on how states due to the phenomenon of security dilemma states engage in biological and chemical research as the states consider the environment of the international system anarchic. The research by using content analysis and qualitative method of research focused on how states had been involved in biological and chemical warfare in history and an extensive literature review was carried out.
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Great Powers Competition, Biosecurity, Biological and Chemical Weapons, COVID- 19
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(1) Tayyaba Zaman Janjua
BS, International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(2) Noor Fatima
Chairperson, Department of Politics and IR, IIU Islamabad, Pakistan
(3) Imran Ashraf
Assistant Professor, International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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APA : Janjua, T. Z., Fatima, N., & Ashraf, I. (2021). Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV(III), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-III).03
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CHICAGO : Janjua, Tayyaba Zaman, Noor Fatima, and Imran Ashraf. 2021. "Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (III): 21-28 doi: 10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-III).03
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HARVARD : JANJUA, T. Z., FATIMA, N. & ASHRAF, I. 2021. Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity. Global Foreign Policies Review, IV, 21-28.
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MHRA : Janjua, Tayyaba Zaman, Noor Fatima, and Imran Ashraf. 2021. "Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV: 21-28
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MLA : Janjua, Tayyaba Zaman, Noor Fatima, and Imran Ashraf. "Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity." Global Foreign Policies Review, IV.III (2021): 21-28 Print.
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OXFORD : Janjua, Tayyaba Zaman, Fatima, Noor, and Ashraf, Imran (2021), "Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity", Global Foreign Policies Review, IV (III), 21-28
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TURABIAN : Janjua, Tayyaba Zaman, Noor Fatima, and Imran Ashraf. "Geopolitical Competition of Great Powers and Biosecurity." Global Foreign Policies Review IV, no. III (2021): 21-28. https://doi.org/10.31703/gfpr.2021(IV-III).03