‘Broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Relations Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI:10.1177/00471178231196070

Umut Ozguc, Asima Rabbani

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Abstract

Since the end of the Cold War, the UN’s collective security model has been questioned as to whether it has been well equipped to respond to the changing landscape of global security. By using the UN Security Council’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper traces the discursive contestations of the traditional understanding of the UN Charter-based collective security model. It examines what meanings the member states collectively attach to public health crises, how they frame the COVID-19 pandemic, and, finally how they consider the role of the Security Council in responding to non-military emergencies. An analysis of the debates by the Council members suggest that there is a slow normative change in the recognition of health security as an indivisible aspect of peace. We argue that the pandemic has created a normative environment for the Council’s members to rethink ‘broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security beyond military conflicts to emphasize the Council’s role in addressing health issues, structural inequalities, and other human security threats.

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在卫生危机时期“扩大”和“深化”集体安全:2019冠状病毒病大流行及以后

自冷战结束以来，联合国的集体安全模式一直受到质疑，人们怀疑它是否做好了应对全球安全形势变化的准备。本文以联合国安理会应对2019冠状病毒病大流行为例，追溯了对基于《联合国宪章》的集体安全模式的传统理解的话语争论。它审查了会员国集体赋予公共卫生危机的意义，它们如何定义COVID-19大流行，以及它们如何考虑安全理事会在应对非军事紧急情况方面的作用。对安理会成员辩论的分析表明，在承认卫生安全是和平不可分割的一个方面方面出现了缓慢的规范变化。我们认为，大流行病为安理会成员重新考虑在军事冲突之外“扩大”和“深化”集体安全创造了规范环境，以强调安理会在解决卫生问题、结构性不平等和其他人类安全威胁方面的作用。

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