In 2017, we set out—along with a larger group of authors—to assess Germany's contribution
and potential leadership role in global health. We considered the ambitions and manifold …

During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) was politicised in
the United States (US) by Donald Trump in an effort to deflect blame as the virus spread. In …

Global health security is an increasingly complex regime. The failures of global governance
and norms of cooperation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and …

The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) is
intended to facilitate learning, action, leadership and accountability for improving quality of …

This article provides an overview of the legitimacy and the legitimacy crises of the World
Health Organization (WHO). During the COVID-19 pandemic, in the era of social media …

The coronavirus disease-19 crisis has challenged the legitimacy of the World Health
Organization as an actor in global health governance and provided the opportunity for China …

This article examines how China sought to externally legitimate the Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI) by means of official rhetoric. The BRI is a notable Chinese policy initiative with a focus …

This article centres around one singular yet substantively important empirical puzzle: why
did the United States fail to delegitimate the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? I argue …

Introduction Legitimacy and trust are crucial for resilient health systems in fragmented
conflict zones. This study evaluates the legitimacy of health systems in northwest Syria …

The research objective is to analyse the consequences that recent crises have had for
multilateral organizations, to what extent they fostered a transformation of response …