Global Health in Crisis?

Security, Foreign Policy and Covid-19 in Germany
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-09625-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Geographies of Health Series

This book examines global health as a foreign policy issue in Germany, exploring its entanglement with security and economic concerns. Based on an ethnography at the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) during Covid-19, it explores the emergence of this policy field, its variations in the pandemic moment, and the coordination of vaccine donations as a case study.

With global health as a growing concern for governments’ security and foreign policies and a corresponding academic interest in these developments, this book offers detailed insights into the German context. Germany has been denoted a latecomer but increasingly important actor in global health – and this book focuses on the assemblage of global health and foreign policy in this setting. The unique observation of Covid-19 in the German FFO highlights the crisis as exceptional and non-exceptional at the same time, making visible gaps in global health structures more generally. The vaccine donations during Covid-19 illustrate problematizations and technologies of global health as entangled with security and economic concerns.

For anyone interested in global health, both in academia and “in the field”, this book provides insights into governmental cooperation in the area of global health and foreign policy prior to and during a crisis, and allows for conclusions for further developments and/or future crisis moments.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Linden, Mara

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Setting The Stage: Observing Global Health In The German Federal Foreign Office 3. Security And Economics: The Formation Of Global Health In Germany 4. Instabilities, Crises And Power: The Ad-Hoc Governance Of Covid-19 5. Solving Global Health Inequalities? The Coordination Of Covid-19 Vaccine Donations 6. The Emergence And Future Of Global Health And Foreign Policy In Germany

Über Autor(innen)

Mara Linden is currently a post-doctoral researcher in cultural geography at the Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She completed her PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where she was a research associate in the Department of Human Geography from 2018 to 2024.