Conflicting Goals
This article was originally published by ETH Zurich’s Zukunftsblog on 11 May 2018. It is also available in German. Safeguarding both humanitarian traditions and the interests of the domestic...
View ArticleEurope’s Pariah People
With over 10 million members, the Roma (also called Romani) constitute today’s largest EU minority group. Scattered across a dozen countries, with their largest concentrated populations in Central and...
View ArticlePolio is Back
A mere two weeks after World Polio Day, a fast moving polio outbreak has struck three central African countries. The first confirmed re-appearance of the disease was reported on 4 November in the...
View ArticleISN Insights: Look Back, Week Ahead
Last week, ISN Insights looked at: Japanese defense policy in a piece by Axel Berkofsky NATO’s new strategic concept in an article by Timo Noetzel and Adrian Oroz Egypt’s elections, held yesterday,...
View ArticleWhy Should Distributing the Polio Vaccine in Pakistan lead to Death?
The huge rise in militancy across Pakistan (pdf) is also creating a number of hazards for aid workers. On New Year’s Day gunmen on motorbikes ambushed and killed six female aid workers and a doctor in...
View ArticleDiagnostics for Global Health
CORVALLIS, OREGON – In developed countries, most people take for granted that when they are sick, they will have access to timely diagnosis and treatment. Indeed, while the diagnostic process – which...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Winnable AIDS Battle
ERFURT – In the battle against HIV/AIDS, South Africa was for many years the perfect example of what not to do. Until recently, the government’s response to the epidemic, which threatened the country’s...
View ArticleHealth or Defense
Obamacare, now in its awkward early stages of implementation, is the American military’s ticket home. The completion of the last element in America’s welfare state –the last strand of the social safety...
View ArticlePolio Wars: Conspiracy and Democracy in Pakistan
This article was originally published by OpenDemocracy on 18 September, 2015. Between December 2012 and early 2015, 78 people were murdered and dozens of others injured because they tried to administer...
View ArticleHidden Dangers: The Implications of the Global Health Security Agenda
This article was originally published by the Harvard International Review on 15 April 2016. On the heels of the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank conference and an Ebola-ridden year, the...
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