Akademisk alcogel - Om hotbilden kring pandemier
(2010) FKVK01 20101Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This paper takes on the some of the problems surrounding threats from pandemic flu, more specific the tendencies of a threat to escalate or being made deliberately exaggerated. Former American president Eisenhower explained the constant ongoing wars with a theory of a military industrial complex. Fuelling conflicts with personal interest, foremost economic gain. With the same theory, although broaden with the idea that characteristics and functions of the involved actors, the public, media, politicians and especially epistemic communities matters when it comes to show how a threats spreads in a society. I answer the question of the escalated threat with a conclusion that it all matters, economic interests as well as the actors qualities.... (More)
- This paper takes on the some of the problems surrounding threats from pandemic flu, more specific the tendencies of a threat to escalate or being made deliberately exaggerated. Former American president Eisenhower explained the constant ongoing wars with a theory of a military industrial complex. Fuelling conflicts with personal interest, foremost economic gain. With the same theory, although broaden with the idea that characteristics and functions of the involved actors, the public, media, politicians and especially epistemic communities matters when it comes to show how a threats spreads in a society. I answer the question of the escalated threat with a conclusion that it all matters, economic interests as well as the actors qualities. Especially the roll of the epistemic community is of interest in the explanation. Its overtaking of power from elected politicians has made it the biggest influence on measures on dealing with pandemics. (Less)
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- author
- Kling, Max LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVK01 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Epistemic communities, pandemi, A(H1N1), samhällshot, säkerhetisering
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1609333
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-29 12:56:13
- date last changed
- 2015-12-14 13:34:37
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