Tag: Global Health
47 Articles
- Dialogues
Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi on the International Order in a Post-Pandemic World
GJIA: In your latest book, Vulnerable: How the Pandemic Will Change the World, you describe a few possible international orders that could occur in a post-COVID-19 world. What…
July 29, 2020
- Global Governance
COVID-19 Management and Soft Power: Ideas for a Geopolitics of Science and Expertise
Countries such as Germany, South Korea, and New Zealand, where policies have been adopted rapidly by the political leadership in synergy with the scientific community, have seen…
July 14, 2020
- Science & Technology
The Reemergence of Vaccine Nationalism
As some governments began narrowing down the roster of projects receiving priority status in late spring, the first hints of “vaccine nationalism” appeared. The expression is…
July 3, 2020
- Global Governance
Japan and South Korea Can Lead Post-Pandemic East Asia
The pandemic crisis has intensified the US-China confrontation. Partly due to the Trump administration’s persistence in calling COVID-19 the “Wuhan virus” or “China virus,”…
June 22, 2020
- Science & Technology
Responding to Water Vulnerabilities at Home and Abroad
Affordability is one of the most subjective measures used by water regulators and utility managers charged with providing household drinking water. In the United States, for…
April 14, 2020
- Forum
Climate Change and Global Health: A Tale of Two Crises
The Thirty-Year Crisis: The Mitigation Failure Adopted in 1992, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) launched global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…
April 13, 2020
- Science & Technology
The Oil Price Collapse Could Reshape Global Natural Gas Markets
China, where COVID-19 originated, was one of the primary sources of global natural gas demand growth, and its mitigation measurements have severely curtailed energy demand. The…
March 27, 2020
- Global Governance
Epidemics and Pandemics as Transnational Issues: The Challenge of the Novel Coronavirus
The first recorded pandemic occurred during the Peloponnesian War in 430 B.C. Suspected to be due to typhoid fever, the pandemic contributed to the Spartan victory over the…
March 23, 2020
- Society & Culture
Alcohol Policies in Australia: Indigenous Activism and International Blueprints
A significant dimension of the WHO definition of alcohol policy is the suggestion that such “authoritative decisions” and measures to limit health or social harm may be made, not…
February 14, 2020
- Business & Economics
Sanctions, Scarcity, and the Depressing Reality of Iranian Healthcare
Each pharmacist I sought out in Tehran bluntly told me there was no chance I could find antidepressants like Pfizer’s Zoloft. Even smugglers recommended by my physician claimed…
January 16, 2020