Wenham, Clare 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5378-3203
(2018)
Regionalizing health security: Thailand’s leadership ambitions in mainland Southeast Asian disease control.
Contemporary South Asia, 40 (1).
pp. 126-151.
ISSN 0958-4935
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Abstract
Since the emergence of HIV/AIDS and SARS, Thailand has understood the security threat posed by disease and has responded by investing in the country’s disease control infrastructure, such as through the development of the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP), improving pandemic preparedness, and collaborating with other states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and private initiatives to ensure health security. This has led to the creation of a multi-stakeholder subregional governance network for disease control. However, underpinning this network is the individual transformation of Thailand, which, beyond acting as a norm entrepreneur, has scaled up its activities in disease control to become a would-be leader in disease control in mainland Southeast Asia. By using Lake’s conceptions of hierarchy and Nolte’s understanding of regional power, this article shows how Thailand has taken on this leadership role and has been able to dominate the normative processes of subregional disease control and in doing so has strengthened its own economic and national security. Moreover, this article draws conclusions for regional governance more broadly, through examining power dynamics between states within the arrangement.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccsa20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Taylor and Francis |
| Divisions: | Health Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2018 15:17 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 13:14 |
| Funders: | Aberystwyth University Research Scholarship |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87530 |
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