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    Self-interest reasons for nations to engage globally in p... — Carmelics
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    Self-interest reasons for nations to engage globally in public health cannot be separated from questions of global structural injustice.

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    • 1.Effective global public health action requires collective coordination.
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    • 2.Collective coordination under conditions of unequal power produces outcomes that fail to protect the interests of weaker parties.
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    • 3.The health threats facing nations are deeply intertwined with unjust global structures.
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    • 1.Realist international relations theory (Waltz, Morgenthau) holds that state self-interest operates independently of normative structural conditions.
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    • 2.A nation's epidemiological self-interest in preventing pandemic spillover is causally prior to and separable from judgments about global distributive justice.
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    • 3.Conflating prudential and moral reasoning commits a category error that undermines both effective policy and coherent normative theory.
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    • 1.Pogge's structural injustice framework requires that harms be actively imposed, not merely correlated with global inequality.
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    • 2.Many self-interest-driven global health interventions (e.g., disease surveillance) produce mutual benefit without presupposing or remedying unjust structures.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-interest rationales for global health cooperation can be fully justified on Rawlsian 'Law of Peoples' grounds without invoking global structural justice.
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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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