Colin Mcinnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 779496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Mcinnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcinnes |
| SIGNATURE | MCINNES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aberystwyth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3611-6454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fighting the next pandemic? Civil-military collaboration in health emergencies after Covid-19
Over the past decade, militaries have been highly visible elements in the response to health emergencies and in particular disease outbreaks. Although there has been a long tradition of civil-military collaboration in health, COVID-19 saw an unprecedented worldwide use of militaries which occurred within a permissive environment established by narratives of global health, humanitarian intervention and multi-sectorality. This creates a dilemma: mi…
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics
Global health politics has emerged over the last two decades as a distinct, interdisciplinary field of study which, although its boundaries are not set, is beginning to demonstrate signs of maturity. It is concerned with the actions, practices, and policies that govern the sphere of global health. Its emergence is intimately linked with the reconceptualisation of health as global. The field addresses not only the processes of decision-making, but…
Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics
From security to risk
The rise of health issues such as HIV, pandemic influenza and Ebola on international agendas has led to the framing of threats to health as security issues. This has created an uneasy relationship between politics and health, by moving national interests into an area traditionally dominated by scientific rationalities and a predisposition towards cosmopolitan norms. Framing global health threats as risks, however, appears to be less politically c…
Crisis! What crisis? Global health and the 2014–15 West African Ebola outbreak
This article examines why the 2014–15 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which subsequently spread more widely, was understood as a crisis. It begins from the basis that there was nothing ‘natural’ about it being considered a crisis; rather it was socially constructed as such. Specifically it suggests that the outbreak could be understood as a crisis because of the way in which it resonated with the global health narrative. The article examines ho…
WHO's next? Changing authority in global health governance after Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) occupies a central place in the system of global health governance and plays a key role in the control of epidemics and pandemics. The 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa, however, saw widespread and sustained criticism of its performance, leading many to call for its reform and even replacement. This article moves on from initial analyses of the WHO's 'failure', to argue that the crisis has led to a shift in its …
Health for health's sake, winning for God's sake
Ideas of smart power and Global Health Diplomacy have developed considerable prominence over the past decade in, respectively, the foreign policy and public health communities. Although in some respects separate, both suggest the potential for using health assistance to generate political as well as health benefits. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan provide an opportunity to examine these assertions at the ‘sharp end’. We consider both the he…
HIV/Aids and securitization theory
This article uses an analysis of the securitization of HIV/AIDS as a basis for proposing three contributions to securitization theory. Beginning with an examination of some of the key debates which have taken place between the Copenhagen School and its critics, the article goes on to argue that the process of securitizing HIV/AIDS was in fact significantly more complex than has been generally recognized and, crucially, that a more nuanced reading…
Framing and global health governance
Despite widespread agreement that collective action to address shared health challenges across countries is desirable and necessary, the realm of global health governance has remained highly problematic. A key reason for this is the manner in which health issues are presented ('framed'). Because multiple frames are operating simultaneously, confusion and a range of competing policy recommendations and priorities result. Drawing on the previous ar…
The securitisation of pandemic influenza
This article examines how pandemic influenza has been framed as a security issue, threatening the functioning of both state and society, and the policy responses to this framing. Pandemic influenza has long been recognised as a threat to human health. Despite this, for much of the twentieth century it was not recognised as a security threat. In the decade surrounding the new millennium, however, the disease was successfully securitised with profo…
Framing global health
With the emergence of global health comes governance challenges which are equally global in nature. This article identifies some of the initial limitations in analyses of global health governance (GHG) before discussing the focus of this special supplement: the framing of global health issues and the manner in which this impacts upon GHG. Whilst not denying the importance of material factors (such as resources and institutional competencies), the…
Smart Power? Health Interventions for Strategic Effect in Iraq and Afghanistan
In 1990, Joseph S. Nye identified the increased importance of “soft power” to foreign policy (Nye 1990). For Nye, soft power contrasts with hard power. The latter “rests on inducements (carrots) and threats (sticks),” while soft power is about “getting the outcomes one wants by attracting others rather than by manipulating their material incentives. It co-opts people rather than coerces them” (Nye 2008:28). With its focus on preserving life and i…
HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: politics, aid and globalization, by Adrian Flint, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 211 pp., £57.50 (hardback), ISBN 9780230221420 Sub-Saharan Africa has
HIV, Aids and conflict in Africa
The causes and consequences of HIV and AIDS are social are well as biomedical. Given the scale of the pandemic, understanding the social dimensions of HIV and AIDS is vital. One key argument is that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV. This appears to be particularly the case for sub-Saharan Africa where high levels of HIV prevalence are matched by violent conflict and state instability. Recent evidence however suggests that HI…
HIV, Aids and security
HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest single causes of death and suffering on the planet. Over the last decade the societal impact of HIV/AIDS has been widely discussed in terms of national and international security. This article assesses the securitizing move and suggests that HIV/AIDS was only partially securitized at best and both the political consensus and strength of evidence were overestimated. It argues for greater nuance in our understanding …
Conflict, HIV and Aids
The argument that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV has become commonplace in both the academic and policy world. This article examines five key reasons offered for this link: the high HIV prevalence in many militaries; that conflict leads to migration which acts as a vector for the spread of the disease; the changes in sexual behaviour introduced by conflict, including increased incidence of rape; reduced health provision an…
The UK, health and peace-building
The problem of how to build peace in post-conflict societies continues to loom large for governments and development agencies worldwide. This article examines the involvement of the UK development community in the creation of the World Health Organization's 'Health as a Bridge for Peace' (HBP) programme. It argues that the new development policy context brought in by the United Kingdom Labour administration in 1997 appeared to provide fertile gro…
Health, security and foreign policy
Over the past decade, health has become an increasingly important international issue and one which has engaged the attention of the foreign and security policy community. This article examines the emerging relationship between foreign and security policy, and global public health. It argues that the agenda has been dominated by two issues – the spread of selected infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and bio-terror. It argues that this is a n…
HIV/Aids and security
Journal Article HIV/AIDS and security Get access COLIN MCINNES COLIN MCINNES 1Head of Department and Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He specializes in strategic studies and in health and international relations and is Director of the Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR) within the Department of International Politics. His most recent book is …
A different kind of war? September 11 and the United States' Afghan War
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the US response have been widely described as heralding a new kind of war. For over a decade previous to 11 September, however, a body of literature had developed arguing that during the 1990s a new kind of warfare had begun to emerge for the West. This article examines whether 11 September and its immediate aftermath – the US campaign in Afghanistan – confirmed these trends, or whether it really did…
Spectator-Sport War
Following a century dominated by global conflict—and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes—the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed for the West. Spectator-Sport War considers the key developments that have led to this metamorphosis, ranging from new geopolitical relationships to new technological advances. McInnes shows that, even in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United Stat…
Fatal attraction? Air power and the west
Spectator sport warfare
(1999). Spectator sport warfare. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 142-165
Health, security and foreign policy
Over the past decade, health has become an increasingly important international issue and one which has engaged the attention of the foreign and security policy community. This article examines the emerging relationship between foreign and security policy, and global public health. It argues that the agenda has been dominated by two issues – the spread of selected infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and bio-terror. It argues that this is a n…
HIV/Aids and securitization theory
This article uses an analysis of the securitization of HIV/AIDS as a basis for proposing three contributions to securitization theory. Beginning with an examination of some of the key debates which have taken place between the Copenhagen School and its critics, the article goes on to argue that the process of securitizing HIV/AIDS was in fact significantly more complex than has been generally recognized and, crucially, that a more nuanced reading…
HIV/Aids and security
Journal Article HIV/AIDS and security Get access COLIN MCINNES COLIN MCINNES 1Head of Department and Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He specializes in strategic studies and in health and international relations and is Director of the Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR) within the Department of International Politics. His most recent book is …
HIV, Aids and security
HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest single causes of death and suffering on the planet. Over the last decade the societal impact of HIV/AIDS has been widely discussed in terms of national and international security. This article assesses the securitizing move and suggests that HIV/AIDS was only partially securitized at best and both the political consensus and strength of evidence were overestimated. It argues for greater nuance in our understanding …
Labour's Strategic Defence Review
Labour's Strategic Defence Review claims to be ‘radical’, leading ‘to a fundamental reshaping of British forces’ while being ‘firmly ground in foreign policy’. Five questions are discussed: 1) Is labour's defence policy different from that of its Conservative predecessors? 2) Has foreign policy ‘led’ defence policy? 3) How open was the review process and to what extent has Labour succeeded in creating a new consensus on defence policy? 4) Has the…
From security to risk
The rise of health issues such as HIV, pandemic influenza and Ebola on international agendas has led to the framing of threats to health as security issues. This has created an uneasy relationship between politics and health, by moving national interests into an area traditionally dominated by scientific rationalities and a predisposition towards cosmopolitan norms. Framing global health threats as risks, however, appears to be less politically c…
WHO's next? Changing authority in global health governance after Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) occupies a central place in the system of global health governance and plays a key role in the control of epidemics and pandemics. The 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa, however, saw widespread and sustained criticism of its performance, leading many to call for its reform and even replacement. This article moves on from initial analyses of the WHO's 'failure', to argue that the crisis has led to a shift in its …
Spectator sport warfare
(1999). Spectator sport warfare. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 142-165
A different kind of war? September 11 and the United States' Afghan War
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the US response have been widely described as heralding a new kind of war. For over a decade previous to 11 September, however, a body of literature had developed arguing that during the 1990s a new kind of warfare had begun to emerge for the West. This article examines whether 11 September and its immediate aftermath – the US campaign in Afghanistan – confirmed these trends, or whether it really did…
Crisis! What crisis? Global health and the 2014–15 West African Ebola outbreak
This article examines why the 2014–15 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which subsequently spread more widely, was understood as a crisis. It begins from the basis that there was nothing ‘natural’ about it being considered a crisis; rather it was socially constructed as such. Specifically it suggests that the outbreak could be understood as a crisis because of the way in which it resonated with the global health narrative. The article examines ho…
Conflict, HIV and Aids
The argument that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV has become commonplace in both the academic and policy world. This article examines five key reasons offered for this link: the high HIV prevalence in many militaries; that conflict leads to migration which acts as a vector for the spread of the disease; the changes in sexual behaviour introduced by conflict, including increased incidence of rape; reduced health provision an…
The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972
(1997). The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972: From policing to counter‐terror. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 1-24
HIV, Aids and conflict in Africa
The causes and consequences of HIV and AIDS are social are well as biomedical. Given the scale of the pandemic, understanding the social dimensions of HIV and AIDS is vital. One key argument is that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV. This appears to be particularly the case for sub-Saharan Africa where high levels of HIV prevalence are matched by violent conflict and state instability. Recent evidence however suggests that HI…
Fighting the next pandemic? Civil-military collaboration in health emergencies after Covid-19
Over the past decade, militaries have been highly visible elements in the response to health emergencies and in particular disease outbreaks. Although there has been a long tradition of civil-military collaboration in health, COVID-19 saw an unprecedented worldwide use of militaries which occurred within a permissive environment established by narratives of global health, humanitarian intervention and multi-sectorality. This creates a dilemma: mi…
Health for health's sake, winning for God's sake
Ideas of smart power and Global Health Diplomacy have developed considerable prominence over the past decade in, respectively, the foreign policy and public health communities. Although in some respects separate, both suggest the potential for using health assistance to generate political as well as health benefits. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan provide an opportunity to examine these assertions at the ‘sharp end’. We consider both the he…
Smart Power? Health Interventions for Strategic Effect in Iraq and Afghanistan
In 1990, Joseph S. Nye identified the increased importance of “soft power” to foreign policy (Nye 1990). For Nye, soft power contrasts with hard power. The latter “rests on inducements (carrots) and threats (sticks),” while soft power is about “getting the outcomes one wants by attracting others rather than by manipulating their material incentives. It co-opts people rather than coerces them” (Nye 2008:28). With its focus on preserving life and i…
Fatal attraction? Air power and the west
British sea power at the millennium
This article considers the security environment in which British sea power must operate; the key features of sea power that help to shape its role in promoting security; and the technological and resource allocation challenges for the Royal Navy in the future. Two major advantages of sea power are reach and poise—the ability to establish a presence and project power in a region and to maintain this presence, as required. In the future, British se…
The decommissioning of terrorist weapons and the peace process in Northern Ireland
The politics of national security
Journal Article The politics of national security: Congress and US defense policy Get access The politics of national security: Congress and US defense policy. By Barry M. Blechman. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991. 249pp. Index. £18.00. ISBN 0 19 506467 4. Colin McInnes Colin McInnes 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, …
Strategic doctrine and political practice
Publishers' lists and new acquisition shelves reveal a profligacy of writing on strategy. Moreover, this vast quantity covers a rich variety of approaches to the subject, such as case studies, policy oriented studies, narrative histories, behavioural analyses, thinking on the 'big' questions of war, peace and security, and thinking about thinkers. This article reviews books covering three very different approaches to strategy, two traditional and…
The politics of national security
Journal Article The politics of national security: Congress and US defense policy Get access The politics of national security: Congress and US defense policy. By Barry M. Blechman. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991. 249pp. Index. £18.00. ISBN 0 19 506467 4. Colin McInnes Colin McInnes 1University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, …
Post‐Cold war security in the Asia‐Pacific region
(1994). Post‐Cold war security in the Asia‐Pacific region: Trends and issues. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 15, Post‐Cold War Security Issues in the Asia‐Pacific Region, pp. 1-9
From the bottom up? Conventional forces and defence policy after the cold war
The decommissioning of terrorist weapons and the peace process in Northern Ireland
The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972
(1997). The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972: From policing to counter‐terror. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 1-24
Labour's Strategic Defence Review
Labour's Strategic Defence Review claims to be ‘radical’, leading ‘to a fundamental reshaping of British forces’ while being ‘firmly ground in foreign policy’. Five questions are discussed: 1) Is labour's defence policy different from that of its Conservative predecessors? 2) Has foreign policy ‘led’ defence policy? 3) How open was the review process and to what extent has Labour succeeded in creating a new consensus on defence policy? 4) Has the…
British sea power at the millennium
This article considers the security environment in which British sea power must operate; the key features of sea power that help to shape its role in promoting security; and the technological and resource allocation challenges for the Royal Navy in the future. Two major advantages of sea power are reach and poise—the ability to establish a presence and project power in a region and to maintain this presence, as required. In the future, British se…
Spectator sport warfare
(1999). Spectator sport warfare. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 142-165
Fatal attraction? Air power and the west
Spectator-Sport War
Following a century dominated by global conflict—and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes—the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed for the West. Spectator-Sport War considers the key developments that have led to this metamorphosis, ranging from new geopolitical relationships to new technological advances. McInnes shows that, even in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United Stat…
A different kind of war? September 11 and the United States' Afghan War
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the US response have been widely described as heralding a new kind of war. For over a decade previous to 11 September, however, a body of literature had developed arguing that during the 1990s a new kind of warfare had begun to emerge for the West. This article examines whether 11 September and its immediate aftermath – the US campaign in Afghanistan – confirmed these trends, or whether it really did…
The UK, health and peace-building
The problem of how to build peace in post-conflict societies continues to loom large for governments and development agencies worldwide. This article examines the involvement of the UK development community in the creation of the World Health Organization's 'Health as a Bridge for Peace' (HBP) programme. It argues that the new development policy context brought in by the United Kingdom Labour administration in 1997 appeared to provide fertile gro…
Health, security and foreign policy
Over the past decade, health has become an increasingly important international issue and one which has engaged the attention of the foreign and security policy community. This article examines the emerging relationship between foreign and security policy, and global public health. It argues that the agenda has been dominated by two issues – the spread of selected infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and bio-terror. It argues that this is a n…
HIV/Aids and security
Journal Article HIV/AIDS and security Get access COLIN MCINNES COLIN MCINNES 1Head of Department and Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He specializes in strategic studies and in health and international relations and is Director of the Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR) within the Department of International Politics. His most recent book is …
Conflict, HIV and Aids
The argument that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV has become commonplace in both the academic and policy world. This article examines five key reasons offered for this link: the high HIV prevalence in many militaries; that conflict leads to migration which acts as a vector for the spread of the disease; the changes in sexual behaviour introduced by conflict, including increased incidence of rape; reduced health provision an…
HIV, Aids and security
HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest single causes of death and suffering on the planet. Over the last decade the societal impact of HIV/AIDS has been widely discussed in terms of national and international security. This article assesses the securitizing move and suggests that HIV/AIDS was only partially securitized at best and both the political consensus and strength of evidence were overestimated. It argues for greater nuance in our understanding …
HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: politics, aid and globalization, by Adrian Flint, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 211 pp., £57.50 (hardback), ISBN 9780230221420 Sub-Saharan Africa has
HIV, Aids and conflict in Africa
The causes and consequences of HIV and AIDS are social are well as biomedical. Given the scale of the pandemic, understanding the social dimensions of HIV and AIDS is vital. One key argument is that there is a link between conflict and the spread of HIV. This appears to be particularly the case for sub-Saharan Africa where high levels of HIV prevalence are matched by violent conflict and state instability. Recent evidence however suggests that HI…
Framing and global health governance
Despite widespread agreement that collective action to address shared health challenges across countries is desirable and necessary, the realm of global health governance has remained highly problematic. A key reason for this is the manner in which health issues are presented ('framed'). Because multiple frames are operating simultaneously, confusion and a range of competing policy recommendations and priorities result. Drawing on the previous ar…
The securitisation of pandemic influenza
This article examines how pandemic influenza has been framed as a security issue, threatening the functioning of both state and society, and the policy responses to this framing. Pandemic influenza has long been recognised as a threat to human health. Despite this, for much of the twentieth century it was not recognised as a security threat. In the decade surrounding the new millennium, however, the disease was successfully securitised with profo…
Framing global health
With the emergence of global health comes governance challenges which are equally global in nature. This article identifies some of the initial limitations in analyses of global health governance (GHG) before discussing the focus of this special supplement: the framing of global health issues and the manner in which this impacts upon GHG. Whilst not denying the importance of material factors (such as resources and institutional competencies), the…
Smart Power? Health Interventions for Strategic Effect in Iraq and Afghanistan
In 1990, Joseph S. Nye identified the increased importance of “soft power” to foreign policy (Nye 1990). For Nye, soft power contrasts with hard power. The latter “rests on inducements (carrots) and threats (sticks),” while soft power is about “getting the outcomes one wants by attracting others rather than by manipulating their material incentives. It co-opts people rather than coerces them” (Nye 2008:28). With its focus on preserving life and i…
HIV/Aids and securitization theory
This article uses an analysis of the securitization of HIV/AIDS as a basis for proposing three contributions to securitization theory. Beginning with an examination of some of the key debates which have taken place between the Copenhagen School and its critics, the article goes on to argue that the process of securitizing HIV/AIDS was in fact significantly more complex than has been generally recognized and, crucially, that a more nuanced reading…
Health for health's sake, winning for God's sake
Ideas of smart power and Global Health Diplomacy have developed considerable prominence over the past decade in, respectively, the foreign policy and public health communities. Although in some respects separate, both suggest the potential for using health assistance to generate political as well as health benefits. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan provide an opportunity to examine these assertions at the ‘sharp end’. We consider both the he…
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