The futility of the pandemic treaty
Caught Between Globalism and Statism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3700858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Wenham (0000-0001-5378-3203), Mark Eccleston-Turner (0000-0002-2589-0738), Maike Vo, Maike Voss (0000-0002-7534-6722) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 837-852 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiac023 |
| OpenAlex | W4220873419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 2 |
In November 2021, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is hosting a special session to discuss the proposed plans for a pandemic treaty. Despite the fact that there are scant details concerning the treaty, the proposal has gained considerable support in both the academic community, and at the international level. While we agree that in the wake of the numerous governance failures during COVID-19, we need to develop appropriate global solutions to be able to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from future global health crises-and that such mechanisms should be rooted in global equity-we disagree, however, that this pandemic treaty, currently, is the most appropriate way in which to achieve this. Indeed, notions of global community, solidarity, fairness are far removed from the reality that we have seen unfolding in the actions of states responding to the pandemic. This is the crux of the tension with the proposed treaty: the balance between the ideal cosmopolitan worldview held by those in power in global health, and the practice of national security decision-making witnessed in the last 18 months. Indeed, we do not believe that a pandemic treaty will deliver what is being extolled by its proponents, and it will not solve the multiple problems of global cooperation in global health that supporters believe it will
Global health · Globalism · Health care · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Solidarity · Treaty · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 7,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |