Global health governance and geopolitics: How Germany can contribute to a new global health architecture after Covid-19 amid growing geopolitical tensions

Michael Bayerlein and Pedro A. Villarreal

No 57/2023, SWP Comments from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Abstract: The development of a new global health architecture in the wake of Covid-19 will require important decisions to be made, especially when it comes to negotiating a pandemic accord and creating robust supply chains. Against the backdrop of their systemic rivalry, the US and China view global health policy as a field of geopolitical competition. This jeopardises the implementation of lessons learned from the Covid‑19 pandemic, not to mention global health in general. The question for Germany is to what extent it needs to adapt its multilateral approach to global health in order to respond to increasing geopolitical tensions. To this end, Germany should develop independent leverage to shape global health policy while also being a reliable, multi­lateral partner to all countries willing to improve in this field

Keywords: global health architecture; Covid-19; systemic rivalry US and China; pandemic prevention; pandemic accord; World Health Organization (WHO); Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.18449/2023C57

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