Mit dem Ausbruch der Schweinegrippe - offiziell jetzt A(H1N1) - in Mexiko erscheint am Horizont erneut die Gefahr einer Grippepandemie, die ähnlich wie die Pandemien des 20. Jahrhunderts (u. a. die Spanische Grippe 1918-1919) Hunderttausende oder gar Millionen Opfer fordern könnte. In den...

This paper links the main issues of the project "Contested World Order" (WZB, GIGA, HSFK) to the policy field of global health: the authority of the institutional setting, and the preferences and strategies of rising powers and non-state actors (NStAs) - the assumed protagonists of recent power...

The present article illustrates how the main actors in global health governance (GHG) - governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IOs), and transnational pharmaceutical companies (TNPCs) - have been interacting and, as a result, modifying the global...

The present article illustrates how the main actors in global health governance (GHG) - governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IOs), and transnational pharmaceutical companies (TNPCs) - have been interacting and, as a result, modifying the global...