The Institutionalisation of Infectious Disease Control in the European Union

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• Wulf Reiners

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• Sozialwissenschaften

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The book explores the evolution of infectious disease control within the European Union (EU), focusing on policy and polity developments in public health and food safety from 1993 to 2014. It aims to identify key developments and the conditions that facilitated institutionalisation. The research adopts a security perspective, advancing the ‘securitisation framework for analysis’ (Buzan et al., 1998). The central hypothesis posits that the institutionalisation of infectious disease control in the EU arises from the perception of infectious diseases as security threats. This links securitisation and institutionalisation processes within a novel analytic framework. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to specify the securitisation of infectious diseases across various ‘degrees’ and ‘kinds’. Empirical investigations are conducted through two case studies: the securitisation of BSE/TSEs and SARS, and significant changes in the EU’s infectious disease control structures, including revisions to the public health article in the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) and the Constitutional Treaty (2004), as well as the establishment of the European Food Safety Authority (2002) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2004). This research contributes new insights into a relatively unexplored area of European integration and develops a novel conceptual approach.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016