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This Special Issue of Global Public Health on Politics & Pandemics brings together 26 articles and commentaries that address diverse aspects the politics COVID-19 related issues. These papers are grouped in six topical areas: theories global health, health systems policies, country responses, social inequalities, science technology. The goal is to give readers a sense range topics have been foc...

This paper investigates the principal competing visions of global politics that are currently advanced in the public discourse about globalization in opposition to the traditional state-centered perspective. The first part of the paper develops an analysis of ideal models as cultural resources that grounds the different reading of human bonds. The second part applies the notion of ideal models ...

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Severe epidemics caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza viruses have recently killed hundreds of people while causing chaos and panic in many countries. These epidemics have distinct characteristics that make their politics significant and interesting, although both health policy analysts and political scientists have neglected the phenomenon. In this article, I ...