COVID-19 and the Trials and Tribulations of Global Health Governance

IF 0.4 Q4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Vestnik Mezhdunarodnykh Organizatsii-International Organisations Research Journal Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI:10.17323/1996-7845-2021-02-05

Melanie Ruelens, J. Wouters

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore significant shortcomings in global health governance. Faced with the rapid international spread of the virus, international actors unsuccessfully attempted a coordinated international response to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak and its far-reaching repercussions. The present article aims to shed light on certain flaws in the existing global health governance architecture that have thwarted both formal—the World Health Organization and the United Nations—and informal international actors—the Group of Seven and the Group of Twenty—in steering the international community through the current global health crisis. It first examines the actions taken by these actors during the Covid-19 pandemic and assesses why they fell short in steering a coordinated international response. Having identified individual states as the real culprits for the inadequate performance, the article discerns the underlying causes of individual states’ hindering of global health multilateralism. Subsequently, it underscores why global health multilateralism remains necessary in a post-Covid-19 world and which international actors should play an active role therein. To conclude, suggestions are given on how the global health governance architecture should be strengthened in a post-Covid-19 world.

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新冠肺炎与全球卫生治理的试验与启示

新冠肺炎大流行凸显了全球卫生治理的重大缺陷。面对病毒的迅速国际传播，国际行为者试图采取协调一致的国际应对措施来应对新冠肺炎疫情及其深远影响，但没有成功。本文旨在揭示现有全球卫生治理架构中的某些缺陷，这些缺陷阻碍了正式的——世界卫生组织和联合国——以及非正式的国际行为者——七国集团和二十国集团——引导国际社会度过当前的全球卫生危机。它首先审查了这些行为者在新冠肺炎大流行期间采取的行动，并评估了为什么他们在指导国际协调应对方面做得不够。在确定个别国家是表现不佳的真正罪魁祸首后，文章发现了个别国家阻碍全球卫生多边主义的根本原因。随后，它强调了为什么全球卫生多边主义在新冠肺炎后的世界仍然是必要的，以及哪些国际行为者应该在其中发挥积极作用。最后，就如何在新冠肺炎后的世界中加强全球卫生治理架构提出了建议。

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