Lars Kohlmorgen

The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS

This paper analyses the role of actors from developing countries in global processes of policy making and governance. To systematically examine the channels of influence of Southern actors and the interactions in global governance it develops the concept of interfaces. It differentiates between organisational, discoursive, legal and resource-transfer interfaces in global governance. This approach is exemplified in the analysis of a specific field of global governance, the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The paper examines the role of Southern governments and non-state actors in the central organisations of global health, their influence in debates and discourses on strategies to fight HIV/AIDS, and the financing mechanisms that were introduced to fight HIV/AIDS in the developing world. It shows that albeit actors from Northern countries dominate global governance in general, in particular areas the current institutional setting of global governance provides significant opportunities for rather weak actors such as civil society organisations and governments from the South to influence strategies and policies.

Transnational Norm-Building in Global Health: The Important Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Westphalian Politics

The International Compact on Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) Human Rights constitutes codified international law, but many of its provisions are still far from being respected. This paper discusses the hypothesis that global civil society strengthens subsidiary norms (as the right to access to essential medicines) and that the successful fight for the implementation of the norm ‘universal access to essential medicines’ proves the discursive power of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the field of human rights.

Nichtregierungsorganisationen als Akteure der Global Health Governance — Interaktion zwischen Kooperation und Konflikt

Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) gibt es schon bedeutend langer als die aktuelle, bisweilen auch ein wenig modische Debatte glauben macht. So nahmen die Anti-Slavery Society (1839) und das Internationale Rote Kreuz (1869) ihre Arbeit bereits Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts auf. Speziell im Gesundheitsbereich sind schon seit langem zahlreiche NGOs beispielsweise in armeren Landern an der Versorgung Kranker beteiligt oder in Katastrophen helfend tatig. Dennoch kann festgestellt werden, dass NGOs seit den 1980er Jahren in der globalen Politik und auch im Gesundheitssektor sowohl eine neue Quantitat als auch — hinsichtlich des politischen Einflusses und der Tatigkeitsbereiche — eine neue Qualitat erreicht haben.