Covid-19 and Vaccine Nationalism
Managing the Politics of Global Pandemics
- 1st Edition - February 18, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Eric E. Otenyo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 7 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 7 1 - 7
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Request a sales quoteCovid-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.
Final sections cover the global blueprint of solving the problem of the Covid-19 pandemic through vaccines and an in-depth analysis of the politics of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, China, Europe, the United Kingdom and India.
- Includes brief descriptions of the political and historical content of various countries accused of practicing vaccine nationalism
- Provides insightful reasons and responses to the national and regional strategies developed in the global vaccine management process
- Offers insights into how future pandemics may avoid mistakes made by policymakers
Researchers, practitioners, policy makers in Public Health and Political Science, Students and Instructors in Public Policy, Health Sciences and Political Science
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 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
- COVID-19 crisis and big picture frameworks
- Market failure and COVAX
- Governance and responsibility within the global system
- National interest and self-preservation?
- Interdisciplinary focus and multiple methodological strategies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. COVID-19 vaccine concerns: an overview on how nations got here
- COVID19: the messy numbers problem
- Tracking disease, national origins, and early therapeutics
- Global pandemic and other immediate mitigation solutions
- Essential medicines and treatments
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. American politics and global COVID-19 vaccinations
- Vaccines: historical antecedents and triumph of science
- Comparative vaccine research, regulation, and rollout
- Benefits and risks
- 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
- American states and vaccine lotteries
- Presidential leadership matters
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. China's nationalism and COVID-19 vaccines
- Defining China's nationalism and historical perspectives
- Self-determination and how is China's nationalism imagined
- Sun Yat-sen: the father of modern Chinese nationalism
- 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
- Conclusion
- Chapter 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
- Throwing away unused vaccines: “we reject vaccine nationalism?”
- Donating vaccines
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. COVID-19 vaccine politics: India's nationalism and global supplies
- Nationalism and the colonial past
- “China Virus” as reference point for nationalistic rhetoric
- Self-reliant myth and message of hope: Serum Institute and National Pride
- Jawaharlal Nehru's nationalist vaccine charge
- India's alleged vaccine nationalism and diplomacy
- Expanding vaccinations
- Did Modi's government learn from previous mistakes?
- International and domestic setbacks
- Antecedents to vaccine resistance and vaccine boosters
- Conclusion
- Chapter 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
- 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
- Omicron and more COVID-19 and the 2nd global COVID-19 vaccine summit
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Reflections on vaccine nationalism and global inequalities
- Pandemics are global, but they don't affect everyone equally
- A recapitulation of collaborations and partnerships
- The World Bank and WHO and international opposition to vaccine nationalism
- The troubled nature of global vaccine management
- Hesitancy, maladministration, and the politics of misinformation and disinformation
- Capitalism Matters: Big Pharma Profits
- 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
- Conclusion
- Chapter 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
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 18, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 318
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443185700
- eBook ISBN: 9780443185717
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Eric E. Otenyo
Dr. Eric Edwin Otenyo PhD is professor of Public Administration at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona. His MPA is from Syracuse University and PhD from Miami University, Oxford Ohio. He has taught advanced courses in public administration and policy and served as MPA program advisor in the department of Politics and International Affairs at the same university. He previously taught at the University of Nairobi and at Illinois State University. His publications include numerous articles in peer -reviewed journals, conference papers, book chapters on policy and governance issues, and the following books: Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings and E-Government: The Use of Information and Communication.
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