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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Otenyo, Eric E.,

Titel

COVID-19 and vaccine nationalism : managing the politics of global pandemics

Ort / Verlag

London, England : Academic Press,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Front Cover -- Covid-19 and Vaccine Nationalism -- COVID-19 AND VACCINE NATIONALISM: MANAGING THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL PANDEMICS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - COVID-19 and vaccine nationalism: managing the politics of global pandemics, an introduction -- Politics, past and present forms of nationalism: defining vaccine nationalism -- Focus on contexts of nationalism: an overview -- Ideology and theory of nationalism -- Categories of nationalism and vaccine nationalism -- Highlighting on economic nationalism -- COVID-19 crisis and big picture frameworks -- Systems approach, markets, and global vaccine governance -- Market failure and COVAX -- Vaccine nationalism and tiered global citizenships -- Governance and responsibility within the global system -- National interest and self-preservation? -- Interdisciplinary focus and multiple methodological strategies -- Recapitulation of plausible conceptual operational and non-state actor approaches -- Summing up the approaches argument -- Settling on the social justice and fairness frame -- Book chapter layout -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 - COVID-19 vaccine concerns: an overview on how nations got here -- COVID19: the messy numbers problem -- Tracking disease, national origins, and early therapeutics -- Bats versus labs: the two competing theories of the origin of coronavirus -- Global pandemic and other immediate mitigation solutions -- Essential medicines and treatments -- Vaccine heterogeneity and SARS-CoV-2 -- Africa participated in COVID-19 vaccine trials and the need for benefit sharing -- Promising impactful mRNA vaccines research -- Multilateral international organization concerns and pleas for vaccines -- Africa: developing countries appeal for help, self-reliance, and solidarity -- National pride and Iran's campaign against vaccine apartheid -- Cuba and vaccine sovereignty.
• Russia and the new Sputnik moment -- Russia's vaccine diplomacy and tool of engagement or war over vaccines -- Israel, vaccines, and the triumph of ultranationalism -- Vaccines, workplace, and societies-everyday living experiences -- Vaccine passports and cards -- Of billionaires, vaccine T-shirts, and merchandise -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 - American politics and global COVID-19 vaccinations -- Vaccines: historical antecedents and triumph of science -- Comparative vaccine research, regulation, and rollout -- Benefits and risks -- COVID-19 vaccine presidential election politics -- Challenge of political COVID-19 vaccine messaging -- Global collaborations: GAVI and COVAX -- Patent rights -- Influenza and global collaborations and controversies -- American nationalism as explanatory factor in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy -- Tuskegee and black bodies -- Republicans, evangelicals, white Christian nationalists, and vaccines -- Religious faction resistance to vaccine is not a new thing -- Operation Warp Speed paradox -- Array of renewed hope as Biden takes over -- Vaccination month of action and incentives for vaccinations -- American states and vaccine lotteries -- Presidential leadership matters -- COVAX support, hoarding of vaccines as an act of nationalism, or the arsenal of vaccines? -- Surplus vaccines, children vaccinations, and accusations of selfishness and national defense -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- 4 - China's nationalism and COVID-19 vaccines -- Defining China's nationalism and historical perspectives -- Ancient cohesive China -- Self-determination and how is China's nationalism imagined -- Sun Yat-sen: the father of modern Chinese nationalism -- A strong and confident China and western power anxiety -- China's nationalism and the external factor viewed through COVID-19 vaccines production -- Taiwan.
• China's COVID-19 vaccines and triumph of China's technologies -- China's national rejuvenation and the lingering question of prejudice -- Africans in China and COVID-19 -- Vaccine diplomacy and campaigns to promote China's vaccines -- Economic vaccine nationalism, protectionism, bilateralism, and governance -- Two-part strategy -- Vaccine hesitancy and outreach and Zero-COVID administration -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 - Fragmented COVID-19 vaccine nationalism and politics in the EU and the UK -- The European Union and global power -- Restless European nationalism and citizenship -- History and governance of the EU -- National norms and politics and COVID-19 challenges -- EU COVID-19 vaccination strategy -- EU's views on China and Russia's vaccines -- Individual implementations in a few countries/nations -- Vaccine passports and protests in Western Europe -- Britain's AstraZeneca's rollout and the contours of European vaccine diplomacy -- Traveling to and from Britain -- Touting success: vaccines and Brexit, and Scottish nationalism and rejection of vaccine nationalism -- Throwing away unused vaccines: "we reject vaccine nationalism?" -- Donating vaccines -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 - COVID-19 vaccine politics: India's nationalism and global supplies -- Nationalism and the colonial past -- "China Virus" as reference point for nationalistic rhetoric -- The vaccine challenge and an emergent global race -- Self-reliant myth and message of hope: Serum Institute and National Pride -- Jawaharlal Nehru's nationalist vaccine charge -- Mounting political pressure and preventable death: the COVID-19 wave of May 2021 -- India's alleged vaccine nationalism and diplomacy -- Expanding vaccinations -- Did Modi's government learn from previous mistakes? -- International and domestic setbacks -- Vaccine hesitancy and corruption.
• Antecedents to vaccine resistance and vaccine boosters -- Vaccine Maitri or Vaccine Friendship Program -- Blaming China, assumptions of vaccine nationalism, and fault lines -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 - The United Nations call to end vaccine nationalism -- Strands of vaccine politics -- Policy experts say no to vaccine nationalism -- UN members and the politics of vaccine apartheid -- The United Nations General Assembly vaccine nationalism -- Human rights framing: Africa and vaccine apartheid -- Big power supremacy battles -- Triumph of corporate power and pandemics -- The COVID-19 vaccine access challenges through the lenses of World Leader's UN Meeting -- Biden's promise: arsenal of vaccines -- Global COVID-19 summit: Building Back Better -- Africans reiterate their concerns and share their policy implementation outlooks -- Caribbean and small islands policy positions at the UN General Assembly -- Voices from Europe on vaccine equity -- Omicron and more COVID-19 and the 2nd global COVID-19 vaccine summit -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 - Reflections on vaccine nationalism and global inequalities -- Pandemics are global, but they don't affect everyone equally -- First and second booster vaccine doses as a form of inequality? -- Science is cumulative: lessons from AIDS and other diseases -- A recapitulation of collaborations and partnerships -- The World Bank and WHO and international opposition to vaccine nationalism -- Voices from senior statesmen and experts -- The troubled nature of global vaccine management -- Hesitancy, maladministration, and the politics of misinformation and disinformation -- Capitalism Matters: Big Pharma Profits -- Vaccine tourism as another potential counter argument against vaccine nationalism? -- Africans destroy vaccines -- Vaccine inequalities, digital divides, and scheduling appointments.
• Vaccine efficacy ranking grades and hierarchies -- Rich but left out of vaccine nationalism narrative -- A convoluted concept -- Problem framing -- Pfizer's FDA Full Approval -- Political will and vaccine donations -- Third shots versus equity and global solidarity -- Settling third shot debate in the United States and conversations for fourth shot -- Sharing technology -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 - Moving forward beyond politics of COVID-19 vaccines development -- Strengthening international institutional capacity -- Increased funding -- Establishment of permanent locus of collaboration and strategic reserves within developing areas -- Collaboration of vaccine productions and genome sequencing -- Trust and involvement of grassroot organizations and improve health and vaccine education -- Leadership and transparency -- Ambassadors for global mutual support systems in pandemic responses -- Strengthen nonprofits philanthropic interventions -- Corporate social responsibility and cessation of vaccine nationalism -- Final remarks and conclusions -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.
• Covid-19 and Vaccine Nationalism: Managing the Politics of Global Pandemics provides an in-depth overview of the complex nature politics played in vaccine production and distribution. The book ensures international and domestic politics, governance, and mechanisms of vaccine production and administration are understandable through insightful discussions. The book aims to solve several problems, including the essence of vaccine nationalism in a context of international politics, the discourse of vaccine nationalism outside popular media, historical documentation of the problem of vaccine inequality and low access of Covid-19 vaccines in developing countries of Africa, the Caribbean, parts of Asia, and more.
• Description based on print version record.