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The combination of the collapse of global trade and a severe recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic will harden the protectionist policies implemented by governments in the most powerful countries, already in place since the 2008 crisis. The historical landscape that took shape at the end of the 2000s resulted in a tightening of the relationship between global economics and geopolitics. “Techno-nationalism” seems highly likely to be an increasingly significant—albeit moderate—form of nationalism in the context of international conflict.