Description
The development of a global health regime is a major international question in the twenty-second century. However, while a material global governance health regime is emerging, so far there is little sign of a positive-normative global health paradigm. Thus, paradoxically, the regime proceeds on the basis of a securitization of global health policies, and communitarian ethical standards. The paper comprises four sections. The first section is devoted to global health politics. The second section discusses the absence of a global health ethical paradigm in the twenty-second century. The section debates how such absence is the result of the hegemony of communitarian ethics in International Relations. The third section develops the argument that the absence of a global normative health paradigm has conducted to a scenario of increased securitization of global health policies. The concluding section explores how the cosmopolitan ethical void negatively influences the global public policy regime in the field of world health.
