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Solidarity During Covid-19 at National, Regional and Global Levels: An Enabler for Improved Global Pandemic Security and Governance
From the Document: "[1] Solidarity entered the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] political rhetoric immediately after the belated pandemic declaration in March 2020. Since then, it has been used to characterize responsibility, cooperation, and compassion based on the One World, One Health principle. [2] Whereas the UN leadership had advocated global solidarity, for the EU solidarity has meant action in respect of burden-sharing. Solidarity has manifested itself as practical cooperation and assistance. Externally, different forms of solidarity have been closely linked to debates over the distribution of vaccines. [3] In the Finnish context, solidarity bears two different meanings for domestic and external use; whereas the former focuses on resilience-building, the latter is a tool for common action in the form of welfare and safety. [4] Solidarity for better global pandemic governance requires the lower levels of solidarity to act as enablers. Solidarity has global appeal and can be mobilized in strategic communication."
Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
Aaltola, Mika; Vaakanainen, Karoliina; Ketola, Johanna . . .
2021-05
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COVID-19 -- A Trigger for Global Transformation? Political Distancing, Global Decoupling and Growing Distrust in Health Governance
From the Document: "Since late 2019, the world has sought - frantically at times - to appropriate policies for responding to the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). This Working Paper reviews the political significance of Covid-19 in order to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing domestic order, international health governance actors and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order. The analysis begins with the argument that contagious diseases should be regarded as complex open-ended phenomena with various features; they are not reducible to biology and epidemiology alone. In particular, politics and social reactions - in the form of panic and blamecasting, for example - are prominent features with clear historical patterns, and should not, for the sake of efficient health governance, be treated as aspects extraneous to the disease itself. The Working Paper further highlights that when a serious infectious disease spreads, a 'threat' is very often externalized into a culturally meaningful 'foreign' entity. Pandemics tend to be territorialized, nationalized, ethnicized, and racialized. This has also been the case with Covid-19."
Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
Aaltola, Mika
2020-03
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