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Global public health · Jan 2012
The securitisation of pandemic influenza: framing, security and public policy.
- Adam Kamradt-Scott and Colin McInnes.
- Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. adam.kamradt-scott@sydney.edu.au
- Glob Public Health. 2012 Jan 1; 7 Suppl 2: S95-110.
AbstractThis article examines how pandemic influenza has been framed as a security issue, threatening the functioning of both state and society, and the policy responses to this framing. Pandemic influenza has long been recognised as a threat to human health. Despite this, for much of the twentieth century it was not recognised as a security threat. In the decade surrounding the new millennium, however, the disease was successfully securitised with profound implications for public policy. This article addresses the construction of pandemic influenza as a threat. Drawing on the work of the Copenhagen School, it examines how it was successfully securitised at the turn of the millennium and with what consequences for public policy.
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