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The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point
in international politics, representing a new type of threat that
could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based
structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary
conversations between strategic, economic, ethical and legal
approaches to global terrorism, this edited book recognises a
fundamental issue: while major crises initially tend to reinforce
old thinking and behavioural patterns, they also allow societies to
challenge and overcome entrenched habits, thereby creating the
foundations for a new and perhaps more peaceful future. This volume
addresses the issues that are at stake in this dual process of
political closure, and therefore rethinks how states can respond to
terrorist threats. The contributors range from leading conceptual
theorists to policy-oriented analysts, from senior academics to
junior researchers. The book explores how terrorism has had a
profound impact on how security is being understood and
implemented, and uses a range of hitherto neglected sources of
insight, such as those between political, economic, legal and
ethical factors, to examine the nature and meaning of security in a
rapidly changing world.
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point
in international politics, representing a new type of threat that
could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based
structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary
conversations between strategic, economic, ethical and legal
approaches to global terrorism, this edited book recognises a
fundamental issue: while major crises initially tend to reinforce
old thinking and behavioural patterns, they also allow societies to
challenge and overcome entrenched habits, thereby creating the
foundations for a new and perhaps more peaceful future. This volume
addresses the issues that are at stake in this dual process of
political closure, and therefore rethinks how states can respond to
terrorist threats. The contributors range from leading conceptual
theorists to policy-oriented analysts, from senior academics to
junior researchers. The book explores how terrorism has had a
profound impact on how security is being understood and
implemented, and uses a range of hitherto neglected sources of
insight, such as those between political, economic, legal and
ethical factors, to examine the nature and meaning of security in a
rapidly changing world.
The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance
and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both
State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the
spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify
potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting
platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of
infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received
relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners,
and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field
to engage with five key issues attached to international disease
outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical
needs, integration, and appeal - to illuminate the political effect
of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who
respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.
The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance
and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both
State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the
spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify
potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting
platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of
infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received
relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners,
and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field
to engage with five key issues attached to international disease
outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical
needs, integration, and appeal - to illuminate the political effect
of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who
respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.
Do states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from
spreading beyond their borders? The fields of global health and
international relations are increasingly concerned with the
responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a
way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader
international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies
focuses on one of the world's most pivotal (and riskiest) regions
in the field of global health-Southeast Asia, which in recent years
has responded to a wave of emerging and endemic infectious disease
outbreaks ranging from Nipah, SARS, and avian flu to dengue and
Japanese encephalitis. Between 2005 and 2010, Davies explains,
Southeast Asian states, despite having vastly different health
system capacities and political systems, repeatedly committed to
pursue a collective approach to the communication of outbreaks.
Davies draws on newly gathered data and extensive field interviews
to explore how these states implemented the revised International
Health Regulations (IHR) through the deliberate alignment of
political interests and regional cooperation. Examining why these
Southeast Asian states adopted a collective approach, Davies also
describes the complications that ensued and traces the consequences
of this approach. The first book to explore what problems exist in
the relationship between international relations and health,
Containing Contagion frames contrasting views of global health
agency within the current crises that are facing global health.
Providing an immediate, contemporary example of a region networking
its response to disease outbreak events, this insightful book will
appeal to global health governance scholars, students, and
practitioners.
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once
took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin
can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing
concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1,
disease diplomacy has emerged as a key foreign and security policy
concern as countries work to collectively strengthen the global
systems of disease surveillance and control. The revision of the
International Health Regulations (IHR), eventually adopted by the
World Health Organization's member states in 2005, was the foremost
manifestation of this novel diplomacy The new regulations heralded
a profound shift in international norms surrounding global health
security, significantly expanding what is expected of states in the
face of public health emergencies and requiring them to improve
their capacity to detect and contain outbreaks. Drawing on Martha
Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink's "norm life cycle" framework and
based on extensive documentary analysis and key informant
interviews, Disease Diplomacy traces the emergence of these new
norms of global health security, the extent to which they have been
internalized by states, and the political and technical constraints
governments confront in attempting to comply with their new
international obligations. The authors also examine in detail the
background, drafting, adoption, and implementation of the IHR while
arguing that the very existence of these regulations reveals an
important new understanding: that infectious disease outbreaks and
their management are critical to national and international
security. The book will be of great interest to academic
researchers, postgraduate students, and advanced undergraduates in
the fields of global public health, international relations, and
public policy, as well as health professionals, diplomats, and
practitioners with a professional interest in global health
security.
Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and
Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international
normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific
impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection
against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's
participation in peace and security processes, and support for
women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and
rebuilding of societies after conflict. Implementation within and
across states and international organizations - and within peace
and security operations - has been slow despite significant
transnational advocacy in support of the WPS agenda. The Oxford
Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security brings together scholars,
advocates, and policymakers to provide an overview of what we know
concerning what works to promote women's participation in peace and
security, what works to protect women and girls from sexual and
gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and what
works to prevent conflict drawing on women's experiences and
knowledge of building peace from local to global levels. Just as
importantly, it addresses the gaps in knowledge on and the future
direction of scholarship on WPS. The Handbook particularly aims to
build on the findings from the 2015 Global Study of Resolution
1325, commissioned by the UN-Secretary General. Over the course of
six sections, the Handbook addresses the concepts and early history
behind WPS; the theory and practice of WPS; international
institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of
WPS in conflict prevention, peace operations, peace building, arms
control, human-rights protection, and protection of civilians;
connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas; and
the ongoing and future challenges of WPS.
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