Covid-19 and Vaccine Nationalism: Managing the Politics of Global Pandemics

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Covid-19 and Vaccine Nationalism
COVID-19 AND VACCINE NATIONALISM: MANAGING THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL PANDEMICS
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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
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