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  • 标题:Ruminations on the Seventh Review Conference of the BWC: More or More of the Same? – David Fidler
  • 作者:David P. Fidler ; Contributing GHG Blogger
  • 期刊名称:Global Health Governance
  • 电子版ISSN:1939-2389
  • 出版年度:2012
  • 期号:1
  • 出版社:Seton Hall University
  • 摘要:States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) held their Seventh Review Conference (RevCon) in December 2011, adopting their Final Declaration on December 22. Over the past decade or so, the BWC emerged as an important venue for global health governance, a development stimulated by two developments the BWC was never intended to address—bioterrorism and concerns about weaknesses with surveillance and response capacities in countries to address infectious disease threats, whether naturally occurring or man-made. Expectations for the Seventh RevCon were low, and questions about the relevance of the BWC process to global health governance increased in the lead-up to the RevCon. Predictably, the RevCon was hailed as a success when it concluded, including by the Obama administration, which highlighted how the RevCon’s outcomes supported the administration’s strategy on countering biological threats
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