The WHO, the global governance of health and pandemic politics

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Notes

1 International Health Regulations (2005) Third Edition, https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/246107/9789241580496-eng.pdf?sequence=1.

2 Coronavirus: What are President Trump's charges against the WHO? Reality Check team, BBC News, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52294623.

3 Would a Biden administration be softer than Trump on China? https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/07/29/would-a-biden-administration-be-softer-than-trump-on-china?utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-07-29&utm_content=article-link-1

4 https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution

5 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/reactionary-internationalism-the-philosophy-of-the-new-right/98D948051CC58BA3BCBD2F40C9F3648F

6 The world system after 1945, Immanuel Wallerstein (2011), Eurozine, https://www.eurozine.com/the-world-system-after-1945/

7 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/23/world/pandemic-world-order-trump-intl/index.html

8 https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/everyone-has-moved-past-the-us-china-trade-warexcept-the-us-and-china

9 https://covid19.who.int/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt6S0943J6gIVwRErCh2_RgYKEAAYAiAAEgLPPPD_BwE

10 See ‘The end of the era of generosity? Global health amid economic crisis’ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1747-5341-4-1;

‘Opening our eyes to Global Health; a philosophy of universal values’ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673063/

‘Critical Global Health: Responding to Poverty, Inequality and Climate Change; Comment on “Politics, Power, Poverty and Global Health: Systems and Frames”’

https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3304.html?_action = articleInfo&article=3304

11 https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019

12 http://mcrglobalhealth.com/2015/12/09/global-health-and-philosophy/;‘The proposal of philosophical basis of the health care system’, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11019-016-9717-2

13 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6893255-WHO-Draft-Resolution.html.