This book examines global health as a foreign policy issue in Germany,
exploring its entanglement with security and economic concerns. Based
on an ethnography at the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) during
Covid-19, it explores the emergence of this policy field, its
variations in the pandemic moment, and the coordination of vaccine
donations as a case study. With global health as a growing concern for
governments’ security and foreign policies and a corresponding
academic interest in these developments, this book offers detailed
insights into the German context. Germany has been denoted a latecomer
but increasingly important actor in global health – and this book
focuses on the assemblage of global health and foreign policy in this
setting. The unique observation of Covid-19 in the German FFO
highlights the crisis as exceptional and non-exceptional at the same
time, making visible gaps in global health structures more generally.
The vaccine donations during Covid-19 illustrate problematizations and
technologies of global health as entangled with security and economic
concerns. For anyone interested in global health, both in academia and
“in the field”, this book provides insights into governmental
cooperation in the area of global health and foreign policy prior to
and during a crisis, and allows for conclusions for further
developments and/or future crisis moments.
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Security, Foreign Policy and Covid-19 in Germany
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ISBN
9781040763384
Publisert
2025
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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