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across national boundaries to mirror disease movements.'
Such assistance in the
domain of public health could significantly enhance the U.S.'s tarnished international
image and augment the diminished levels of soft power (nye 2002).
the health of developed countries is increasingly affected by microbes emerging
in the poorer reaches of the developing world (e.g., avian influenza, west nile virus,
SarS). therefore, global public health can be understood as a public good, and
the costs of epidemiological surveillance and containment should be borne by the
international community, although continued diplomatic leadership by the hegemon
(the U.S.) will doubtless be central. Furthermore, where possible, states should
possess (or develop) a level of surge capacity to deal with epidemic events that
generate mass morbidity and mortality. at present there is little surge capacity within
the U.S. as a result of its uniquely market-driven healthcare system.
Notes
see Davis and Kimball (2001); on conflict, see Elbe (2002) and Ostergard (2002); and on
the distribution of resources see Poku (2002) and Farmer (2003).
Jervis (2005, 1-32).
republican reformulation of realist theory see Price-Smith (2008).
public goods such as surveillance and containment; see bull (1995); Smith, beaglehole,
woodward et al. (2005), and Kaul, conceição, le Goulven, et al. (2003).
from world war II, which saw the formation of the entire Un system and its attendant
international organisations. world war II also generated responses within europe leading
to the european coal and Steel community and ultimately to the emergence of the
european Union as a supranational entity.
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