Sara E Davies
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 844316 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara E Davies |
| NOMBRES | Sara E |
| APELLIDO | Davies |
| FIRMA | DAVIES S E |
| AFILIACIONES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7637-2252 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 293 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
What keeps women safe from violence during shocks? Review of risk and protective factors in the Indo-Pacific region
Violence against women (VAW) can escalate during and immediately after shocks, thus underscoring the need to better understand and identify the protective factors that mitigate the risks. This scoping review examines the risks and protective factors associated with VAW during shocks – intense, acute or sudden events that include conflicts, financial crises, health emergencies and natural disasters, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region (46 coun…
Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls
box The prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the Pacific is a regional priority, but solutions must be Pacific-centred
One Health for all
The One Health concept emphasizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health. While the term “One Health” has only gained traction in this century, the idea itself is much older. For instance, many Indigenous Peoples and local communities have traditional cosmologies that recognize the interconnectedness of the ecosystem and the role of humans within it [1, 2]. It is the industrialized-focused worldview that has only recently c…
Impact of Social, Political, and Environmental Events on Violence Against Women in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific region faces frequent and intense social, political, and environmental events (herein described as shocks), including conflicts, health emergencies, economic crises, and disasters, that can increase the risk of violence against women (VAW). Yet the region is underrepresented in global research that examines the impact of these events on VAW. This scoping review identifies and analyses published peer-reviewed literature on the imp…
Managing the politics of health data during Covid-19
This article investigates the political dynamics of health statistics during COVID-19, a period marked by intensified reliance on quantitative data. It examines how institutional configurations shaped the governance and politics of pandemic data. Using the concept of ‘statistical systems’, the article presents a comparative typology of formal structures and informal norms for official data production and dissemination, and tests how these influen…
The Weaponization of Sexual Violence
Using Data Science to Examine Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
The lack of data is a major barrier to comprehending conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Existing studies indicate a high prevalence of violence but limited documentation. Media are often the first to report CRSV, thus, can data science methods analyze news reports promptly and accurately? We compare manual, machine-learning and Generative AI analysis of thousands of media reports. Five variables can be automatically coded with high accuracy…
Can the state prevent? The role of the Joint Communiqué in preventing conflict-related sexual violence
The state’s role in the perpetration or tolerance of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is not inevitable, even in conflicts where the state may lack the capacity to prevent such violence or protect populations effectively. Prevention and protection by state institutions, including the military, requires reform that addresses not only CRSV behaviour and crimes but also gendered norms that condone this violence in existing legal and social fr…
The glowing fireflies
In China, the escalating repression of gender and sexual diversity has given rise to ‘queer necropolitics’. ‘Queer necropolitics’ – a concept we build on – refers to the hegemonic ability to determine who is allowed to suffer, survive, or thrive. We examine China’s sustained re-enforcement of traditional gender norms, which has rendered queer communities non-existent from official recognition. In this context, we aim to understand how China’s sta…
Bordering
Why did Australia border earlier than most other states in response to the outbreak of COVID-19? Between mid-January and March 2020, the Australian government adopted increasingly restrictive travel bans that led to the country closing its borders to all non-residents, adopting mandatory hotel quarantines for 14 days and a travel ban on Australians travelling overseas. These actions were in contravention of the World Health Organization advice to…
Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015
The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The twelfth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015: Navigating the New International Disorder, covered a turbulent period both domestically and internationally. Australia had four Prime Ministers in this period alone, there were growing challenges in the Middle East and Europe, as well as on Australi…
Global health law & policy
Epidemic Orientalism
Epidemic Orientalism presents the persuasive argument that modern international disease control—its governance priorities, its financial mechanisms and its scientific language—is the product, not a by-product, of colonialism. Colonialism, and the empires that supported this practice, sought to define, dictate and control infectious disease containment practices to control trade and movement. As a result, contemporary international disease control…
WHO and Covid-19
Specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasize the importance of impartiality and independence to ensure state compliance and buy-in to their institutional mandate. For functionalists, the boundary distinction between scientific expertise and politics is useful for interest-minded states and institutions that want to promote knowledge over politics. In extreme crisis states revert to national interests. The question fo…
Perceived stigma of Covid-19 patients in Shanghai, China, in the third year of the pandemic
The study finds that the overall level of self-reported stigma during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai in 2022 was at a lower level than that compared to the self-reported perceived stigma study in Wuhan in 2020. In Shanghai, the severity of the disease and hospitalization length had most impact on financial insecurity and feelings of social isolation. These experiences were not gendered. Recovery measures, including economic considerations, ne…
The “fish tank”
Since 2013, LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other) activism in China has existed in a gray area between noncriminalization in legal terms and fragmented strategies of suppression.The expansion of home-grown social media platforms has provided a (relatively) safe haven for LGBTQ+ people to connect, and a growing number of LGBTQ+ groups have established themselves in the country.However, in recent years, laws, po…
Centering social reproduction during crisis
Studies examining the gendered impacts of COVID-19 have shown that women have been disproportionately impacted by the socio-economic effects of the pandemic across multiple areas, including economic and food security. We sought to understand how the impacts of the pandemic on women’s food security in the Indo-Pacific region were influenced by women’s roles in performing the bulk of unpaid work and care involved in social reproduction. We intervie…
Covid-19 in Southeast Asia
The devastation caused by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in December 2019, SARS-CoV-2, has been immense. The COVID-19 pandemic (2020–) has led to the loss of millions of lives, the disability of millions more, the loss of economic livelihoods, the loss of trust in science for some, and the rediscovery of the importance of public health for others. It is important to acknowledge one region that felt the immediate impact of this outbreak in th…
WuhanDiary and #WuhanLockdown
Social media can be both a source of information and misinformation during health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media became a ubiquitous tool for people to communicate and represents a rich source of data researchers can use to analyse users’ experiences, knowledge and sentiments. Research on social media posts during COVID-19 has identified, to date, the perpetuity of traditional gendered norms and experiences. Yet these stu…
Covid-19, sex, and gender in China
Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research
Evidence shows that infectious disease outbreaks are not gender-neutral, meaning that women, men and gender minorities are differentially affected. This evidence affirms the need to better incorporate a gender lens into infectious disease outbreaks. Despite this evidence, there has been a historic neglect of gender-based analysis in health, including during health crises. Recognizing the lack of available evidence on gender and pandemics in early…
Spotlight on the gendered impacts of Covid-19 in Australia
The gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, beyond infection and fatality rates, can be seen across a range of broader social and economic issues including care overload, domestic violence, unemployment and job loss, and housing insecurity. On the whole, government public policy in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has not adequately addressed or prevented the inevitable gender impacts that have emerged. To what ext…
Follow the money
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and women's participation in peace processes are strongly supported by states. Yet financing to support the implementation of WPS has lagged behind overt international commitments to the agenda. WPS scholars and practitioners have highlighted the funding shortfalls for enabling WPS implementation and continued under-investment in gender-inclusive peace. In this article, we ask how much are donor states f…
Reconceptualizing successful pandemic preparedness and response
Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 response indicators focus on public health outcomes (such as infections, case fatalities, and vaccination rates), health system capacity, and/or the effects of the pandemic on the economy, yet this avoids more political questions regarding how responses were mobilized. Pandemic preparedness country rankings have been called into question due to their inability to predict COVID-19 response and outcomes, and COVID…
Response to reviews of Containing Contagion by Sara E. Davies
Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia. Sara E. Davies. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 2019, pp. xii + 212. ISBN 978-1-421-42739-3 (pbk). Containing Contagion stemmed from two health emergencies that followed each other in quick succession: the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and H5N1 Avian Influenza outbreak the following year. Questions arose such as what were states …
Reframing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
Over the past decade, significant global attention has been paid to the issue of ‘widespread and systematic’ sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). To contribute to the prevention of SGBV, researchers have examined the relationship between the presence of armed conflict and the causes of SGBV. Much of this causal literature has focused on the individual and group perpetrator dynamics that fuel SGBV. However, we argue that research needs to lay …
Securitizing infectious disease
Over the past decade there has been an increased awareness in the field of international relations of the potential impact of an infectious disease epidemic on national security. While states' attempts to combat infectious disease have a long history, what is new in this area is the adoption at the international level of securitized responses regarding the containment of infectious disease. This article argues that the securitization of infectiou…
Norm Entrepreneurship in Foreign Policy
Theories of international norm diffusion rely on accounts of entrepreneurial action almost exclusively identified as normative non-state actors who persuade powerful states to change their behaviour. We argue that powerful state agents can (also) be moral norm entrepreneurs and explicate the foreign policy acts that make them significant agents of international socialisation. Unlike non-state actors who set the agenda by advocating for new norms,…
A gendered human rights analysis of Ebola and Zika
Globally gender remains a key factor in differing health outcomes for men and women. This article analyses the particular relevance of gender for debates about global health and the role for international human rights law in supporting improved health outcomes during public health emergencies. Looking specifically at the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks, what we find particularly troubling in both cases is the paucity of engagement with human righ…
Legitimising Rejection
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees are the two primary international legal instruments that states use to process asylum seekers' claim to refugee status. However, in Southeast Asia only two states have acceded to these instruments. This is seemingly paradoxical for a region that has been host to a large number of asylum seekers who, as a result, are forced to live as ‘i…
The politics of counting and reporting conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
Scholars, states and international organizations have begun to systematically count, document and compare sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in conflict-affected countries. Qualitative and quantitative studies point to a “tip of the iceberg” phenomenon, where there is a high prevalence but low level of actual reporting of SGBV. We investigate the conditions in which SGBV is reported or, more significantly, is not reported to discover the tre…
Why the Covid-19 response needs International Relations
The COVID-19 pandemic affects all countries, but how governments respond is dictated by politics. Amid this, the World Health Organization (WHO) has tried to coordinate advice to states and offer ongoing management of the outbreak. Given the political drivers of COVID-19, we argue this is an important moment to advance International Relations knowledge as a necessary and distinctive method for inclusion in the WHO repertoire of knowledge inputs f…
How women’s silence secures the peace
Most studies of the gendered impact of conflict focus on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) atrocities committed in high-intensity conflict environments. In contrast, this article focuses on the patterns of SGBV in Mindanao, Philippines – an environment of protracted low-intensity conflict within a fragile state. We examine the current Mindanao peace process to highlight the disempowerment of survivors of SGBV, due in large part to the repor…
Women, Peace and Security as an Asean priority
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat and its member states have repeatedly professed their commitment to the protection and advancement of women's economic and human rights. Such commitments have included the Declaration of the Advancement of Women in the ASEAN Region in 1988, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the ASEAN Region in 2004, and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in 2012, as well …
The Responsibility to Protect in the Asia-Pacific Region
In 2005, governments around the world unanimously agreed to the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P), which holds that all states have a responsibility to protect their populations from genocide and mass atrocities, that the international community should assist them to fulfil this duty, and that the international community should take timely and decisive measures to protect populations from such crimes when their host state fails to …
Access to Whose Justice? Survivor-Centered Justice for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Northern Shan State
In 2019, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted Resolution 2467. The resolution was to encourage the international system to promote a survivor-centered response to conflict-related sexual violence. The role of local women-led civil society organizations has been identified as the crucial “first-response” mechanism to institute survivor-centered justice. In a situation of ongoing conflict, what agency do civil society organizations have…
What contribution can International Relations make to the evolving global health agenda
This article presents two approaches that have dominated International Relations in their approach to the international politics of health. The statist approach, which is primarily security-focused, seeks to link health initiatives to a foreign or defence policy remit. The globalist approach, in contrast, seeks to advance health not because of its intrinsic security value but because it advances the well-being and rights of individuals. This arti…
We also deserve help during the pandemic”
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses particular challenges for migrant workers around the world. This study explores the unique experiences of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in Hong Kong, and how COVID-19 impacted their health and economic wellbeing. Interviews with FDWs ( n = 15) and key informants ( n = 3) were conducted between May and August 2020. FDWs reported a dual-country experience of the pandemic, where they expressed…
Securing Reproductive Health
Failure to access reproductive health care is a threat to the security of women around the world. This article offers three propositions to recognize reproductive health as a matter of international peace and security. The first is to recognize current processes of advancement and backlash politics as a silent security dilemma that undermines rights, justice, and public health based approaches to reproductive health. The second is to draw on the …
Realistic yet humanitarian? The comprehensive plan of action and refugee policy in Southeast Asia
The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) has recently been described as a successful example of how to manage large protracted refugee flows. However, this article revisits the circumstances surrounding the CPA used to resolve the prolonged Indo-Chinese refugee crisis to highlight that part of its development was linked to the fact that Southeast Asian states refused to engage with proposed solutions, which did not include repatriation for the…
Saving refugees or saving borders? Southeast Asian States and the Indochinese refugee crisis
This article charts the response of Southeast Asian states to the Indochinese refugee crisis between 1975 and the 1979 Geneva conference. The purpose of this article is to understand why the outbreak of Southeast Asia’s largest refugee crisis since World War II did not prompt the region’s states to accede to international refugee law. It is argued that most Southeast Asian states continued to reject international refugee law during this period be…
Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during Covid-19
COVID-19 has disrupted social, economic and political life across the Asia Pacific region, with particularly deleterious impacts on women. Rather than equitably affecting all, COVID-19 has brought about a “patriarchal reset”, exacerbating women’s health and care labour burdens and heightening the physical violence against women and other threats to women’s human rights. This paper examines global health governance in the region from a feminist po…
The glowing fireflies
In China, the escalating repression of gender and sexual diversity has given rise to ‘queer necropolitics’. ‘Queer necropolitics’ – a concept we build on – refers to the hegemonic ability to determine who is allowed to suffer, survive, or thrive. We examine China’s sustained re-enforcement of traditional gender norms, which has rendered queer communities non-existent from official recognition. In this context, we aim to understand how China’s sta…
Reconceptualizing successful pandemic preparedness and response
Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 response indicators focus on public health outcomes (such as infections, case fatalities, and vaccination rates), health system capacity, and/or the effects of the pandemic on the economy, yet this avoids more political questions regarding how responses were mobilized. Pandemic preparedness country rankings have been called into question due to their inability to predict COVID-19 response and outcomes, and COVID…
WHO runs the world – (not) girls
During health emergencies, neglect of gender experiences and needs can compromise the outbreak response. Ebola in West Africa and Zika in Latin America had gendered effects that were evident during the crises, yet governments and international organizations failed to prioritize a gender-inclusive response. There is the same risk that gender-inclusive responses and knowledge will continue to be neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this artic…
Bordering
Why did Australia border earlier than most other states in response to the outbreak of COVID-19? Between mid-January and March 2020, the Australian government adopted increasingly restrictive travel bans that led to the country closing its borders to all non-residents, adopting mandatory hotel quarantines for 14 days and a travel ban on Australians travelling overseas. These actions were in contravention of the World Health Organization advice to…
The “fish tank”
Since 2013, LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other) activism in China has existed in a gray area between noncriminalization in legal terms and fragmented strategies of suppression.The expansion of home-grown social media platforms has provided a (relatively) safe haven for LGBTQ+ people to connect, and a growing number of LGBTQ+ groups have established themselves in the country.However, in recent years, laws, po…
Enduring Peace
In 2015, the Myanmar Government, the Myanmar Tatmadaw (military) and eight ethnic armed organisations ( eao s) signed the 2015 National Ceasefire Agreement ( nca ). In 2019, this agreement was signed by three more eao s, and there have been four annual conferences (Union Peace Panglong Conference 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). The ceasefire arrangements, which are present primarily in Southeast Myanmar, have failed to make significant progress in key a…
Artificial Intelligence in Global Health
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reaching into every aspect of global health. In this essay, I examine one example of AI's potential contributions and limitations in global health: the prediction, treatment, and containment of a global influenza outbreak. The potential advantages are clear. AI can aid global influenza surveillance platforms by improving the capacity of organizations to look for novel influenza outbreak strains in the right places,…
President Donald Trump as global health’s displacement activity
The United States presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016 was observed by global health commentators as posing dire consequences for the progress made in global health outcomes, governance, and financing. This article shares these concerns, however, we present a more nuanced picture of the global health governance progress narrative pre-Trump. We argue that Trump’s presidency is a displacement activity to which global health’s pre-existing …
Start looking south
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter referred to as the 1951 Convention) was passed on 28 July 1951. Twenty-six states were represented in the negotiations and the Convention was adopted by 24 votes to 0.1 The Convention was drafted to deal with the situation in post-Second World War Europe, where the developing Cold War had caused approximately 200,000 people to flee the Communist bloc each year since 1945, on top of…
The Asian Rejection
The majority of Asian states have not signed onto the major international refugee law instruments which promote refugee recognition and protection. Yet, second to Africa, the Asian region has had the highest number of refugees since the Second World War. Three explanations are usually offered to explain this puzzle —“good neighbourliness”, “economic costs” and “social disruption”. In this article I argue that each is flawed in important ways and …
Saving refugees or saving borders? Southeast Asian States and the Indochinese refugee crisis
This article charts the response of Southeast Asian states to the Indochinese refugee crisis between 1975 and the 1979 Geneva conference. The purpose of this article is to understand why the outbreak of Southeast Asia’s largest refugee crisis since World War II did not prompt the region’s states to accede to international refugee law. It is argued that most Southeast Asian states continued to reject international refugee law during this period be…
Redundant or Essential? How Politics Shaped the Outcome of the 1967 Protocol
The 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees has been described as an unnecessary addendum to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. However, if the 1967 Protocol was superfluous, why did the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the early 1960s insist on its development? This article seeks to establish that the 1967 Protocol was originally intended to encompass the broader concerns of African and Asian states …
Legitimising Rejection
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees are the two primary international legal instruments that states use to process asylum seekers' claim to refugee status. However, in Southeast Asia only two states have acceded to these instruments. This is seemingly paradoxical for a region that has been host to a large number of asylum seekers who, as a result, are forced to live as ‘i…
Chapter 4. After The 1979 Conference
This chapter assesses the on-going response to the refugee crisis immediately after the 1979 Conference. It explores the immediate aftermath of the 1979 Conference and demonstrates that Southeast Asian states remained determined to ensure that the international community maintained their promise of resettlement and assistance. It then investigates the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR's) attempts to encourage the region to cre…
Chapter 3. The Beginning Of The Indochinese Refugee Crisis
This chapter explores why the largest refugee crisis to confront Southeast Asia since the Second World War did not prompt states in the region to accede to international refugee law, and looks at the initial stages of the Indochinese refugee crisis-between 1975 and 1979. It proceeds in three parts. The first part provides a brief historical overview of the myriad conflicts that inspired the Indochinese refugee crisis. The second part traces the d…
Chapter 6. The 1989 Comprehensive Plan Of Action
This chapter details how the Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) was created by ASEAN states, Hong Kong and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in a collaborative effort to solve the Vietnamese and Laotian refugee problem. It argues that the adoption of UNHCR guidelines for screening refugees did not represent an acceptance by the Southeast Asian states of the basic principles of the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol. First, …
Chapter 1. The Eurocentric 1951 Convention
This chapter demonstrates how Western states' political and domestic interests inhibited the potential for a broader understanding of the refugee problem. It develops the Eurocentric argument in four parts. The first part focuses on the refugee protection organizations that existed prior to the establishment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and consider why these failed, necessitating the creation of the UNHCR. The sec…
Chapter 5. ‘Compassion Fatigue’ In The Mid 1980s
During the 1980s, refugee flows from Indochina continued but resettlement numbers started to fall as developed states started to suffer from what ASEAN termed 'compassion fatigue'. This chapter argues that by the mid 1980s Southeast Asian states' became successful in claiming that Indochinese asylum seekers did not deserve prima facie refugee status. It first looks at Southeast Asian states demands for Western states to adhere to the promises of …
Chapter 2. 1967 Protocol—An Addendum To The 1951 Convention
This chapter argues that the 1967 Protocol failed to resolve developing states' claim of Eurocentrism within the 1951 Convention. It explores the creation of the 1967 Protocol in four sections. First, it looks at the difficulty that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was having reconciling the 1951 Convention's refugee definition with the broader definition of a refugee contained in its mandate and the growing number of 'ma…
Realistic yet humanitarian? The comprehensive plan of action and refugee policy in Southeast Asia
The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) has recently been described as a successful example of how to manage large protracted refugee flows. However, this article revisits the circumstances surrounding the CPA used to resolve the prolonged Indo-Chinese refugee crisis to highlight that part of its development was linked to the fact that Southeast Asian states refused to engage with proposed solutions, which did not include repatriation for the…
Securitizing infectious disease
Over the past decade there has been an increased awareness in the field of international relations of the potential impact of an infectious disease epidemic on national security. While states' attempts to combat infectious disease have a long history, what is new in this area is the adoption at the international level of securitized responses regarding the containment of infectious disease. This article argues that the securitization of infectiou…
Ocis and Beyond
The Oceanic Conference for International Studies (OCIS) has grown from a small, mostly Australian and New Zealand, affair to an international biennial gathering of scholars from North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Established by a small organising committee drawn from universities across Australia and New Zealand, the principal aim of OCIS was to bring together the Oceanic International Relations (IR) community in an organic and inclusiv…
Twentieth Anniversary Special Issue – International relations
The articles published here are drawn from the third biennial OCIS hosted by the University of Queensland, on 2–4 July 2008. The number and quality of papers we had to choose fromwas high, and the process of selecting the limited number represented a real challenge. In the end we tried to select articles across a range of sub-fields in the discipline including: normative theory (Andrew Linklater and Steven Slaughter), international relations theo…
The Responsibility to Protect in the Asia-Pacific Region
In 2005, governments around the world unanimously agreed to the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P), which holds that all states have a responsibility to protect their populations from genocide and mass atrocities, that the international community should assist them to fulfil this duty, and that the international community should take timely and decisive measures to protect populations from such crimes when their host state fails to …
Reproductive Health as a Human Right
This article seeks to understand why, despite over three decades of claiming women's reproductive health as a human right, we have seen little progress in reducing their health inequalities and poor health outcomes. I argue that one reason for this lack of progress may be due to a failure to clearly articulate the responsibilities of key actors, crucially states, in ensuring that women have access to, and provision of, services required to realiz…
What contribution can International Relations make to the evolving global health agenda
This article presents two approaches that have dominated International Relations in their approach to the international politics of health. The statist approach, which is primarily security-focused, seeks to link health initiatives to a foreign or defence policy remit. The globalist approach, in contrast, seeks to advance health not because of its intrinsic security value but because it advances the well-being and rights of individuals. This arti…
The duty to report disease outbreaks
Since the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, it has been argued that there has been a substantial revision to the norm dictating the behaviour of states in the event of a disease outbreak. This article examines the evolution of the norm to 'report and verify' disease outbreaks and evaluates the extent to which this revised norm has begun to guide state behaviour. Examination of select East Asian countries affected by human infect…
The challenge to know and control
Since the revisions to the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2005, much attention has been turned to how states, particularly developing states, will address core capacity requirements. The question often examined is how states with poor health systems can strengthen their capacity to identify and verify public health emergencies of international concern. A core capacity requirement is that by 2012 states will have a surveillance and resp…
The shared responsibility of disease surveillance
In a recent analysis of the performance of global health governance initiatives, Ng and Ruger (2011) argue that one of the most striking features of the transition from international health governa
GR2P Special Issue
Engendering the Responsibility to Protect
This article explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the pursuit of the so-called ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda at the UN. We ask whether the two agendas should continue to be pursued separately or whether each can make a useful contribution to the other. We argue that while the history of R2P has not included language that deliberately evokes the protection of women and the promotion of gender in prev…
Nowhere to hide
Since the revisions to the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2005, much attention has turned to how states, particularly developing states, will address core capacity requirements attached to the revised IHR. Primarily, how will states strengthen their capacity to identify and verify public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC)? Another important but under-examined aspect of the revised IHR is the empowerment of the World He…
The international politics of disease reporting
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