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  • Hidden Wars

    Gendered Political Violence in Asia's Civil Conflicts

    by Sara E. Davies, Jacqui True ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
    Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has always been a part of warfare. In Asia, testimonies of egregious rape and sexual violence extend back to the Rape of Nanjing, to the experience of the Korean comfort women in World War II, and to forced marriages and sexual slavery during the Cambodian genocide. The past two decades have yielded crucial new insights about SGBV, but scholars and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Containing Contagion

    The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia

    by Sara E. Davies ...
    Do states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from spreading beyond their borders?The fields of global health and international relations are increasingly concerned with the responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies focuses on one of the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks

    The New Frontier for States and Non-state Actors

    by Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde ...
    Series series Routledge Global Health Series
    The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of infectious ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Disease Diplomacy

    International Norms and Global Health Security

    by Sara E. Davies, Adam Kamradt-Scott, Simon Rushton ...
    Have the revised International Health Regulations allowed states to rise to the challenge of delivering global health security?In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security

    Edited by Sara E. Davies, Jacqui True ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • Governing Global Health

    Who Runs the World and Why?

    by Chelsea Clinton, Devi Sridhar ...
    The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action

    Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project

    by Caroline Abu-Sada ...
    What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Médecins Sans Frontières sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Global Health Governance

    by Jeremy Youde ...
    In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political, economic, and social consequences and remind the world of the necessity of global cooperation in order to deal effectively with the challenges they pose.Global Health Governance offers a comprehensive introduction to ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Global Health Governance

    by Sophie Harman ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike.Providing a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed, this book:Explores the various ways in which we understand ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Predatory Leadership

    Are Nations Getting the Governments They Deserve?

    by Chris Simms ...
    How Weak Leadership Brought Crises to the Global CommunityHow did we ever reach the point of nearly 900,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, 5.5 million worldwide and a climate crisis that now affects 85% of the global population, yet goes largely unchallenged?The pandemic and climate crises are only part of a network of crises that coalesced about 50 years ago with roots going back 400 years. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Health Organization (WHO)

    by Kelley Lee ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation for over sixty years. With origins dating from the nineteenth century, WHO’s mandate is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health. The huge challenge of fulfilling this objective has not only required high-level technical ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Conflict And Health

    by Natasha Howard, Egbert Sondorp, Annemarie Ter Veen ...
    This introductory text is perfect for students new to the specialised area of the theoretical constructs underlying health and humanitarian work. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD