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An examination of the critical need to integrate health into US foreign policy explores the threats of bioterrorism & pandemic influenza as well as the World Health Organization's 2005 International Health Regulations which instituted a sweeping new approach for dealing with international public health emergencies & global health security. The impact of health issues on security, economic power, development, & human dignity is pointed out, along with four characteristics of health as a foreign policy issue: agenda expansion; issue linkage; forum shifting; & elasticity. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractRecent catastrophes, and predictions of an increasing potential for more, have stimulated thinking about the best policy responses to these threats. This article explores how security concepts influence catastrophe governance. The article considers how globalization affects thinking about catastrophes and describes ways in which catastrophes have been conceptualized as governance challenges, such as the human rights approach to the provision of health and humanitarian assistance. The article explains how health and humanitarian assistance experienced "securitization" in the post-cold war period, a development that challenges rights-based strategies and creates complex and controversial implications for the prevention, protection and response functions of catastrophe governance.

AbstractAt the intersection of new weapon technologies and international humanitarian law, so-called "non-lethal" weapons have become an area of particular interest. This article analyses the relationship between "non-lethal" weapons and international law in the early 21st century by focusing on the most seminal incident to date in the short history of the "non-lethal" weapons debate, the use of an incapacitating chemical to end a terrorist attack on a Moscow theatre in October 2002. This tragic incident has shown that rapid technological change will continue to stress international law on the development and use of weaponry but in ways more politically charged, legally complicated and ethically challenging than the application of international humanitarian law in the past.

This article focuses on a political revolution that has occurred in the area of health as an issue in international relations & examines the change in the relationship between health, foreign policy, & international relations. Three different frameworks are analyzed to establish which one provides the most accurate account of health's new prominence in foreign policy & international politics. The conceptualization of the health-foreign policy relationship captures the dynamic between science & politics found at the heart of this relationship. However, the science-politics dynamic in the health-foreign policy relationship is unstable & the author suggests how the volatility in the relationship might be mitigated to produce a more sustainable foundation for the future. Some examples are given to support the observation that health has ceased to be merely a technical, humanitarian, & non-political activity. E. Sanchez