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What contribution can International Relations make to the evolving global health agenda

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ID4036749
AuthorsSara E Davies (0000-0002-7637-2252, Griffith University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume86
Issue5
Pages1167-1190
Publication date2010-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00934.x
PMID20882709
OpenAlexW2005513289
LanguageEN
Citations received22

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 article charts the evolution of these approaches and demonstrates why both have the potential to shape our understanding of the evolving global health agenda. It examines how the statist and globalist perspectives have helped shape contemporary initiatives in global health governance and suggests that there is evidence of an emerging convergence between the two perspectives. This convergence is particularly clear in the articulation of a number of UN initiatives in this area - especially the One World, One Health Strategic Framework and the Oslo Ministerial Declaration (2007) which inspired the first UN General Assembly resolution on global health and foreign policy in 2009 and the UN Secretary-General's note "Global health and foreign policy: strategic opportunities and challenges". What remains to be seen is whether this convergence will deliver on securing states' interest long enough to promote the interests of the individuals who require global efforts to deliver local health improvements

Convergence (economics) · Corporate governance · Declaration · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign policy · Global governance · Global health · Health care · International relations · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Public Administration · Health Policy

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Unique citing works22
Citations per year1,47
Citation span2011 - 2026 (16)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 21
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