The International Politics of Ebola
ThirdWorlds Series

The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was undoubtedly a health emergency, yet it was also a global political event. This book examines the international politics of the Ebola outbreak in all of its dimensions, critically assessing the global response, examining what the outbreak can tell us about contemporary global health governance, and examining the inequalities and injustices that were laid bare. In doing so, the book shows how some of the concepts, debates and findings from the growing field of global health research in International Relations can help both in furthering understanding of the Ebola crisis and also in improving policy responses to future infectious disease outbreaks.This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

Introduction: Ebola and International RelationsCrisis! What crisis? Global health and the 2014–15 West African Ebola outbreak, WHO’s to blame? The World Health Organization and the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Public health emergencies: a new peacekeeping mission? Insights from UNMIL’s role in the Liberia Ebola outbreak, Ebola responsibility: moving from shared to multiple responsibilities, Ebola at the borders: newspaper representations and the politics of border control, Infectious injustice: the political foundations of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, The race for Ebola drugs: pharmaceuticals, security and global health governance, Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola: between individual patient care and global biosecurity, Ebola, gender and conspicuously invisible women in global health governance Ebola and the production of neglect in global health,

Anne Roemer-Mahler is a Lecturer in International Relations and a Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Policy at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the role of pharmaceutical companies in global governance and the pharmaceuticalisation of global health.

Simon Rushton is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has written widely on international responses to HIV/AIDS and other diseases; the links between health and security; the changing nature of global health governance; and issues surrounding health, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction.