International Cooperation of Health Securities in Non-traditional Fields in the Perspective of Neo-liberal Institutionalism
A Case Study on the Assistance of the European Union to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Prevention and Control of Ebola Epidemic
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.281How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- International security; Neo-liberal institutionalism; European Union; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ebola Epidemic
- Abstract
The assistance of the European Union (EU) to the prevention and control of Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a typical case of the international cooperation of health security in the non-traditional fields, which reflects the adherence of EU to neo-liberal institutionalism and the contradiction between. This study focuses on the EU’s assistance to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC since 2018 within the theoretical framework of neo-liberal institutionalism. On the one hand, assistance verifies the concept of interdependence between countries implicated by neoliberal institutionalism and manifests the fact that international institutions have strengthened the willingness of non-state actors to cooperate globally. Thus it provides a reference for the follow-up international cooperation in the security system. On the other hand, it also reflects some contradictions within the paradigm of neo-liberal institutionalism, such as the weakening of aid effectiveness and the international cooperation mechanism. The health issues of the DRC are still far from sanguine.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jiuru Lu AU - Zhenhao Ma AU - Yifei Wang AU - Haipeng Yu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - International Cooperation of Health Securities in Non-traditional Fields in the Perspective of Neo-liberal Institutionalism BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1664 EP - 1672 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.281 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.281 ID - Lu2021 ER -