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- Title
COVID-19 from the lens of Global International Relations.
- Authors
Bas Vilizzio, María Magdalena; Nieves Aguirre, Mónica Fernanda
- Abstract
Although the initiation of COVID-19 vaccination brought hope, IFM forecasts that the main fault line to global recovery is access to vaccines, an argument that reinforces the idea that COVID-19 is a syndemic and not a pandemic. This article argues that from the lens of Global International Relations three elements impact vaccine access and affordability: human security, global governance, and International Law. First, the health emergency requires rethinking security considering the multiple risks and threats centred on the human being. Second, inefficiency of global governance led to the success of vaccine diplomacy over Covax Facility, as well as India and South Africa's long and uncertain struggle for a waiver in the World Trade Organisation. Finally, although Law plays an essential role in building resilience in situations of vulnerability, the international legal system lacks treaties that rule pandemics or establish limits to intellectual property if the immunity of herd requires it.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; INTERNATIONAL relations; VACCINATION; COVID-19 pandemic; INTERNATIONAL organization; WORLD Trade Organization; COVID-19; TREATIES; PREPAREDNESS; VACCINES
- Publication
OASIS - Observatorio de Análisis de los Sistemas Internacionales, 2022, Issue 36, p21
- ISSN
1657-7558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18601/16577558.n36.03