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Introduction: Ebola and International Relations

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  • Anne Roemer-Mahler
  • Simon Rushton

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The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was an enormous and in many ways unprecedented health emergency. Yet the outbreak was not only a global health event – it was also a global political event. In this introduction to the special issue we discuss the contribution that International Relations scholarship can make to analysing and understanding the Ebola outbreak and the global response to it. We group our comments around four key themes: (1) allocating responsibility in a diffuse global health governance system; (2) the causes and effects of Ebola being perceived as a global crisis; (3) the downsides of a security-driven approach to global health emergencies; and (4) issues of inequality both between and within countries, including those around gender, resources and power.

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  • Anne Roemer-Mahler & Simon Rushton, 2016. "Introduction: Ebola and International Relations," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 373-379, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:37:y:2016:i:3:p:373-379
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1118343
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