Global Health in Crisis?

Security, Foreign Policy and Covid-19 in Germany

Mara Linden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

162 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-09625-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines global health as a foreign policy issue in Germany and global health’s entanglement with security and economic concerns.

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.

Mara Linden is currently a post-doctoral researcher in cultural geography at the Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where she was a research associate in the Department of Human Geography from 2018 to 2024.

1. Introduction 2. Setting The Stage: Observing Global Health In The German Federal Foreign Office 3. Security And Economics: The Formation Of Global Health In Germany 4. Instabilities, Crises And Power: The Ad-Hoc Governance Of Covid-19 5. Solving Global Health Inequalities? The Coordination Of Covid-19 Vaccine Donations 6. The Emergence And Future Of Global Health And Foreign Policy In Germany

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Geographies of Health Series
Zusatzinfo	7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-041-09625-9 / 1041096259
ISBN-13	978-1-041-09625-2 / 9781041096252
Zustand	Neuware