Journal of Contemporary Politics
DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v1i2.7
Year: 2022, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 26-32
Original Article
Jonathan Schwartz ✉ 1
Received Date:12 September 2022, Accepted Date:26 November 2022, Published Date:28 December 2022
The heavy and ongoing toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the dramatic failures of the international community to effectively respond to pandemics. The recent WHO declaration that Monkeypox now joins COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) even before COVID-19 has been brought under control highlights the reality that the pandemic threat is not a passing aberration, but rather an ongoing challenge requiring significant effort to address. One proposed approach is to “securitize” pandemics – in other words, elevate the status of pandemics from a matter of low politics to one of high politics. In this paper I consider the pros and cons of taking such a step.
Keywords: Global implication, Pandemic framing, Covid-19
© 2022 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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