This book argues that the rise of institutions and organizations dedicated to global health-global health governance-has emerged, grown, and proven itself resilient over the past generation because international society has come to understand addressing global health as part of a larger sense of moral responsibility and obligation.

• Introduction


• 1: The English School and the Emergence of International Society


• 2: Primary Institutions, Secondary Institutions, and Moral Obligation


• 3: The Evolution of Global Health Governance


• 4: Contemporary Global Health Governance Actors


• 5: Development Assistance for Health


• 6: International Society Confronts Ebola


• 7: China, International Society, and Global Health Governance


• Conclusion

Jeremy Youde is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. His publications include The Politics of Surveillance and Responses to Disease Outbreaks (co-edited with Sara Davies, Ashgate, 2015), The Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security (co-edted with Simon Rushton, Routledge, 2015, Global Health Governance (Polity, 2012), Biopolitical Surveillance and Public Health in International Politics (Palgrave, 2010), and Aids, South Africa, and the Politics of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2007). He currently serves as the Chair of the Global Health Section for the International Studies Association.