Health Capacities as New Power Instrument

by Akram Zaoui & Salma Daoudi

The COVID crisis has demonstrated that health can be described as both (geo)political and economic capital, thus emphasizing the role it can play in power struggles at different scales. Although the pandemic has raised the necessity to create new paradigms for the governance of global goods, including health, reaching this objective might prove to be complicated by a range of a factors.