Abstract
Abstract: It has become commonplace to argue that global health has ascended from "low politics"to the ranks of "high politics"in international relations - those issues of existential importance to the state and which concern its very survival. Despite its ubiquity, the actual substance of such a shift in the framing of global health is largely unexamined. In this article, I argue that empirical evidence belies the idea that global health is a "high politics"issue. This dichotomy makes little sense, and efforts to reframe global health as a "high politics"or securitized issue rarely succeed. While it is undoubtedly true that global health has received significantly greater attention from the international community over the past twenty-five to thirty years, that attention does not spring from global health being reframed as a "high politics"issue for states.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 157-170 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Global Security Studies |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Global health
- High politics
- Low politics
- Security