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    Nations cannot effectively address threats to public heal... — Carmelics
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    Nations cannot effectively address threats to public health, including those from climate change, without collective global action.

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    • Many threats to public health, including threats from climate change, require collective global action to be effectively addressed.
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    • 1.Subsidiarity principles, defended by thinkers from Aquinas to contemporary federalists, hold that governance is most effective at the lowest competent level.
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    • 2.Empirical evidence from Elinor Ostrom's polycentric governance research demonstrates that local and regional institutions often outperform global bodies in managing shared resources.
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    • 3.Therefore, fragmenting public health authority into a single global mechanism may reduce rather than enhance effective response by eliminating adaptive local experimentation.
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    • 1.Effective collective action requires enforcement mechanisms, but legitimate enforcement presupposes a sovereign authority that no current global institution possesses.
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    • 2.Realist international relations theory, from Hobbes through Waltz, establishes that sovereign states will defect from cooperative frameworks when national interests diverge.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim conflates the normative desirability of global cooperation with its practical achievability, rendering it action-guiding only in idealized rather than real-world conditions.
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    Perhaps most foundationally, the self-interest reason for nations to engage globally in public health cannot be separated from questions of global structural injustice in international relations more broadly. Many threats to public health, including the threats from climate change, cannot be effectively addressed absent collective global action. However, in today’s global order in which nations differ greatly in wealth and other forms of power, the likelihood that agreements and coordinated acti
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