Legal aspects of global pandemics
Keywords:
Public International Law, trade law, World Trade Organization, national security exception, trade war, trade protectionismAbstract
Pandemics are for the most important diseases, resulting from the spread of human to human infection.
They have a variety of of negative social, economic and political effects. Pandemics have the potential to weaken many societies, political systems and economies in the same time. The global threat determined by pandemics required a global cooperation. The problem of global cooperation has two aspects. First,is that member States are not taking their commitment seriously and they are using mostly the no more than rhetoric. Second, most states are confronting big problems when it comes to building core capacities, especially when domestic health systems are underfunded and understaffed.
