From: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
The field of Global Health has grown in part in response
to the need to generate better sustained political and trade demands for more
concerted international responses. In this sense, pressing global health
challenges have transcended national borders and, due to their centrality to
human and societal wellbeing, it has also been increasingly deployed as a tool
for accomplishing multiple ends in global politics, whether in foreign policy,
in foreign aid, or warfare.
The political structure of contemporary global health
governance unfolds diverse dynamics and multidimensional processes with a wide
range of actors, shedding light on new reconfigurations of health's
international political economy. Concurrently, there has been a meaningful
increase in international diplomatic coordination around health, especially in
response to global threats (such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola, Zika virus
congenital syndrome, and, more recently, the COVID-19). This can be seen in the
way that cardinal international multilateral institutions – from the United
Nations General Assembly, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization
(WHO) – have converged on seeking to tackle many more global health issues also
influenced by significant political and institutional dysfunctions.
The maxim "pathogens do not recognize borders"
also requires a critical view of international cooperation in the field of
health, delving into changes of States' foreign policies in the field of
health, the power dynamics in international organizations, and the
inter-relations among health, trade, migrations, and human rights. These topics
showcase how the study of global health is increasingly providing new outlooks
on some of the core assumptions and debates within IR discipline. In this
regard, power asymmetries in the international sphere can offer explanations
about why the spotlights are on certain diseases and not others as well as the
role of transnational companies in the global epidemics of noncommunicable
diseases, planetary health, security studies, HIV/AIDS politics, access to
essential drugs, neglected diseases, and gender issues within the global health
agenda.
The dimension reached by Covid-19 indicates that the
field of global health is at a turning point, more visible than ever. The
experts' predictions that a pandemic of devastating effects would occur were
confirmed. All attention was turned to WHO, which has become the subject of
domestic politics in some of its member states. Although the organization has
experienced constant crises in recent decades, it is now being attacked with
unprecedented intensity. New leaderships, alliances and agendas are likely to
rival existing organizations. Investments in global health programs and the
security agenda are likely to increase. To understand the impact of the
pandemic on international relations, we must remember that the field of global
health is broader and more complex than the Covid-19.
Therefore, this issue aims to raise awareness of global
health debates and the reconfiguration of preexisting ideological,
geopolitical, and methodological queries in the international realm. Hence,
promising methodological and epistemological paths can be explored.
This special issue seeks further contributions on the
following topics:
1. corporate influence, philanthrocapitalism, and global
health governance;
2. planetary health, sustainability, and its dynamics on
global politics;
3. changes in the concepts, approaches, and practices
within global health diplomacy;
4. sexual, reproductive, maternal health, mental health
and rights in conflict and post-conflict areas;
5. health, aid, crisis, and development;
6. global health security: recurring and emerging issues;
7. law, norms, and human rights in global health;
8. the politics of the health policy process: from global
to local.
Deisy Ventura (Full Professor of Ethics at the School of
Public Health of the University of São Paulo and president of the Brazilian
Association of International Relations) and Danielle Rached (Professor at the
Law School of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro) will edit the
volume. All submissions should be original and unpublished, must be written in
English, including an abstract which does not exceed 60 words (and 4-6 keywords
in English), and follow the Chicago System. They must be in the range of 8,000
words (including title, abstract, bibliographic references, and keywords). RBPI
general author’s guidelines can be found here. Submissions must be done at
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Articles can be submitted until March 31th, 2021.As a
result of the collapse of public funding for the Brazilian scientific journals,
especially those granted by the National Council for Scientific and
Technological Development, RBPI had to start charging processing fees for
articles approved for publication. The RBPI charges an article publication fee
payable by authors whose articles are approved for publication, which is used
exclusively to cover the costs of the editorial production services. Authors are
encouraged to seek support from their institutions for the full or partial
payment of publication fees. RBPI maintains a policy of partial waiver for
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doctoral students who prove that they do not have support from their Graduate
Studies Programs to cover full or partial payment of the fees.
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published online at the very moment their editorial production is finished. The
first segment will be released in March 2021.
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