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Vos, Bart de (2016)

The 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak and Global Health Security

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)
On the 18th of September 2014 the United Nations Security Council met in its first emergency meeting on a public health crisis. The reason for this meeting was to discuss and find an appropriate response to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The response came in the form of resolution 2177 and 69/1, which mandated the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response. A mandated health crisis mission is unprecedented in international politics and can be seen as a watershed moment. This thesis analyzed the legitimization process of the UN response within the larger discourse of global health security. A critical approach was taken in the form of poststructuralism, as it tries to identify and explain how certain issues have been problematized and how the discourse has emerged historically to frame an understanding of problems and solutions.
International relations
Discourse analysis
Poststructuralism
Ebola
Health security
Author
Vos, Bart de
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
MA International Relations: International Studies
Supervisors
O'Malley, A.M.
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en