Making the Best Out of a Crisis: Russia’s Health Diplomacy during COVID-19

Giusti, Serena; Ambrosetti, Eleonora Tafuro

doi:10.3390/socsci11020053

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“…As a result, Russia has grown in importance as a result of the creation of Sputnik V, the world's first vaccine. On the other hand, China looks to be the most active nation in this area ( 61 ).…”

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Global law, policy, and governance for effective prevention and control of COVID-19: A comparative analysis of the law and policy of Pakistan, China, and Russia

Khaskheli

Wang

Hussain

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Global health governance is a developing system in this complex institutional regime. The local and regional health policies sometimes challenge global health governance due to diverse discourse in various countries. In the wake of COVID-19, global health governance was reaffirmed as indifferent modules to control and eliminate the pandemic; however, the global agencies later dissected their own opinion and said that “countries must learn to live with a pandemic.” Given the controversial statement, this research focuses on the strong and effective policies of the Russian Federation, Pakistan, and China. The research uses the law and governance results and newly developed policies of the three countries formed under the global health policies. The conclusion is based on the statement that in order to live with the pandemic, strong health measures are required at each level.

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Global law, policy, and governance for effective prevention and control of COVID-19: A comparative analysis of the law and policy of Pakistan, China, and Russia

Khaskheli

Wang

Hussain

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…104 Italy was considered an EU country that had good relations with Russia before the start of the pandemic, and in March 2020, Russia was quick to answer the call for medical aid issued by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. 105 The presence of Russian military personnel in the EU and NATO countries caused considerable stir among the Italian media, especially due to the involvement of one alleged Russian military intelligence officer in the spy affair not long after the aid mission arrived in Italy. 106 Nevertheless, the Italian government was supportive of the Sputnik V vaccine, and the Spallanzani Institute in Rome conducted a joint test of the Russian vaccine with the Gamaleya Institute.…”

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Vaccine Diplomacy of the United States, China, India, and Russia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis

Filipović

2024

Međunarodna politika

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This research strives to present a comparative analysis of the vaccine diplomacy of the United States, China, India, and Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic. As each of the examined countries possesses the technology to research and manufacture the vaccines, as well as the logistical capacity and infrastructure for their global distribution, it was natural to expect that they would start with their own vaccine diplomacy, especially in the countries and regions that are considered a priority for their national and foreign policy interests. However, each country had a different approach to the vaccine diplomacy engagement based on their vaccine manufacturing capacity and global distribution limitations. At the same time, competition was observed between the rival powers. It can be concluded that although even such a severe global crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic failed to bring closer cooperation between the great powers, such a crisis established vaccine diplomacy as an additional element of foreign policy, and it will most likely be developed as a soft-power tool even more in the near future.

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“…During the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists served as mediators between the government and the public, taking responsibility for coverage of the vaccines (Perreault and Perreault 2021). The rapid rollout of the world's first registered vaccines against COVID-19 caused skepticism and hesitancy concerning their effectiveness such that some scientists started to view them as health diplomacy tools aimed at enhancing the image of their producing countries rather than as a means of disease prevention (Vargina 2020;Giusti and Ambrosetti 2023). It is worth noting that scholars distinguished two main approaches to developing and promoting the COVID-19 vaccines: vaccine diplomacy and vaccine nationalism (Kirgizov-Barskii and Morozov 2022).…”

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Digital Pseudo-Identification in the Post-Truth Era: Exploring Logical Fallacies in the Mainstream Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Vaccines

Тенева

2023

Social Sciences

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Because of China’s new wave of COVID-19 in May 2023, the issue of tackling COVID-19 misinformation remains relevant. Based on Lippmann’s theory of public opinion and agenda setting theory, this article aims to examine the concept of digital pseudo-identification as a type of logical fallacy that refers to supporting journalists’ opinions with ‘false’ arguments that lack factual evidence. To do so, the study applied computer-aided content analysis, as well as rhetorical and critical discourse analyses, to examine 400 articles related to four COVID-19 vaccines (‘Oxford-AstraZeneca’, ‘Pfizer-BioNTech’, ‘Sputnik V’ and ‘Sinovac’) published on the online versions of two major British and American mainstream media sources between August 2020 and December 2021. The results of the study show that journalists of the ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Guardian’ used similar logical fallacies, including the opinions of pseudo-authorities and references to pseudo-statistics and stereotypes, which contributed to creating distorted representations of the COVID-19 vaccines and propagating online misinformation. The study also reveals political bias in both of the mainstream media sources, with relatively more positive coverage of the European vaccines than non-European vaccines. The findings have important implications for journalism and open up perspectives for further research on the concept of digital pseudo-identification in the humanities and social sciences.

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Making the Best Out of a Crisis: Russia’s Health Diplomacy during COVID-19

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Global law, policy, and governance for effective prevention and control of COVID-19: A comparative analysis of the law and policy of Pakistan, China, and Russia

Global law, policy, and governance for effective prevention and control of COVID-19: A comparative analysis of the law and policy of Pakistan, China, and Russia

Vaccine Diplomacy of the United States, China, India, and Russia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis

Digital Pseudo-Identification in the Post-Truth Era: Exploring Logical Fallacies in the Mainstream Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Vaccines

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