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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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