Preparing for the Next Global Threat: A Call for Targeted, Immediate Decisive Action in Southeast Asia to Prevent the Next Pandemic in Africa

SARS: A Crisis Analysis Case Study

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1623 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lan Xue ◽

Kaibin Zhong

Keyword(s):

Political Agenda ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Delayed Response ◽

International Crisis ◽

Radar Screen ◽

Novel Virus ◽

Decisive Action ◽

Global Threat ◽

National Governments

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis was the first epidemic caused by a novel virus in the 21st century, killing nearly 774 globally and 349 in China. Started in late 2002, it escalated from a localized outbreak into a national and ultimately an international crisis within just a few months, before the outbreak was finally brought under control in June 2003. The governmental actors were caught off guard before a timely and comprehensive response was put in place in mid-April 2003. As pandemics are becoming both more frequent and more devastating, it is important that efforts be made to intervene early in an outbreak to prevent a potential national and even global threat. The provincial and national governments did not take prompt and comprehensive actions, even after the disease began spreading quickly and taking lives. The Chinese government dramatically revamped their approach to SARS and took very decisive action to respond to the spread of the SARS virus in April 2003; this occurred only when decision makers had been informed of this crisis situation and put on notice to put crisis management on their radar screen and make it a “top priority.” Therefore, it’s necessary to understand what factors influenced the initial delayed response by local and national Chinese governments, from the perspective of information management and governmental political agenda.

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The Evolution of ISIS In Indonesia With Regards to Its Social Media Strategy

Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional ◽

10.26593/jihi.v13i2.2627.145-158 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

Naufal Armia Arifin

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Al Qaeda ◽

Muslim Country ◽

Recruitment Method ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Global Threat ◽

Foreign Fighters ◽

Social Media Strategy

AbstractISIS is a splinter terrorist group from Al-Qaeda that became a global threat in the last two decades. Its recruitment method that is different from its predecessor, also how it utilizes social media effectively, made them able to spread terror to every part of the world and conquer many territories of Iraq and Syria in order to fulfill their goal of a caliphate. However, recent development shows ISIS will lose their base of operation in both countries and there are signs of ISIS shifting their focus to Southeast Asia, with regards to the Marawi conquest. This paper aims to discuss how such development affects ISIS in Indonesia as the largest Muslim country in Southeast Asia and how the government responds to the situation. Keywords: isis; al-qaeda; social media; foreign fighters; indonesia. AbstrakISIS adalah kelompok teroris pecahan dari Al-Qaeda yang menjadi ancaman global dalam hampir dua dekade terakhir. Metode perekrutan anggota ISIS yang berbeda dari pendahulunya, serta bagaimana ISIS memanfaatkan sosial media dengan efektif membuat kelompok ini dapat menyebarkan teror di seluruh dunia dan menguasai banyak wilayah di Irak dan Suriah untuk memenuhi tujuan negara kekhalifahan mereka. Namun, perkembangan terkini menunjukkan ISIS akan kehilangan basis operasinya di kedua negara tersebut dan terdapat tanda bahwa ISIS akan mengalihkan fokus mereka ke Asia Tenggara dengan berkaca pada peristiwa penaklukan Marawi. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan bagaimana perkembangan tersebut berpengaruh pada ISIS di Indonesia sebagai negara Muslim terbesar di Asia Tenggara dan bagaimana pemerintah meresponnya. Kata Kunci: isis; al-qaeda; media sosial; pejuang asing; indonesia.

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From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus

Current Sociology ◽

10.1177/0011392120963369 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 001139212096336

Author(s):

José Maurício Domingues

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Risk Society ◽

Global Politics ◽

World Health ◽

Global Risk ◽

Health Governance ◽

Nation States ◽

Decisive Action ◽

Health Organization ◽

Global Threat

This article tries to understand the manifold impact the coronavirus crisis has had on social life. Beck’s ‘risk society’ is discussed, especially in the pandemic’s transition from a risk to a concrete threat. Moreover, the article shows that the World Health Organization was already framing its discourse in connection with risk, though the nation-state model that dominates global politics prevented it from taking more decisive action, not because nation-states are weak, but because they simply did not ascribe importance to looming pandemics. This is bound to change: politically-steered and policy-oriented state capabilities – taxation, managing, moulding, surveillance, coercion, materialization, along with a legal meta-capability, which never waned, return to the forefront. At least partly in the West and Latin America the security of populations has taken centre-stage. Keynesianism and some sort of state welfarism are making a comeback. Changes in ‘global health governance’ are happening, too. While the precise direction of change is unclear, the article presents some future possibilities.

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WGS-Based Analysis of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Vietnam and Molecular Characterization of Antimicrobial Determinants and MLST in Southeast Asia

Antibiotics ◽

10.3390/antibiotics10050563 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 563

Author(s):

Gamal Wareth ◽

Jörg Linde ◽

Ngoc H. Nguyen ◽

Tuan N. M. Nguyen ◽

Lisa D. Sprague ◽

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Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Acinetobacter Baumannii ◽

Core Genome ◽

Action Plan ◽

Carbapenem Resistant ◽

Global Threat ◽

Next Generation Sequencing Ngs ◽

Sequence Types ◽

Generation Sequencing

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii, CRAb) is an emerging global threat for healthcare systems, particularly in Southeast Asia. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology was employed to map genes associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to identify multilocus sequence types (MLST). Eleven strains isolated from humans in Vietnam were sequenced, and their AMR genes and MLST were compared to published genomes of strains originating from Southeast Asia, i.e., Thailand (n = 49), Myanmar (n = 38), Malaysia (n = 11), Singapore (n = 4) and Taiwan (n = 1). Ten out of eleven Vietnamese strains were CRAb and were susceptible only to colistin. All strains harbored ant(3”)-IIa, armA, aph(6)-Id and aph(3”) genes conferring resistance to aminoglycosides, and blaOXA-51 variants and blaADC-25 conferring resistance to ß-lactams. More than half of the strains harbored genes that confer resistance to tetracyclines, sulfonamides and macrolides. The strains showed high diversity, where six were assigned to sequence type (ST)/2, and two were allocated to two new STs (ST/1411-1412). MLST analyses of 108 strains from Southeast Asia identified 19 sequence types (ST), and ST/2 was the most prevalent found in 62 strains. A broad range of AMR genes was identified mediating resistance to ß-lactams, including cephalosporins and carbapenems (e.g., blaOXA-51-like, blaOXA-23, blaADC-25, blaADC-73, blaTEM-1, blaNDM-1), aminoglycosides (e.g., ant(3”)-IIa, aph(3”)-Ib, aph(6)-Id, armA and aph(3’)-Ia), phenicoles (e.g., catB8), tetracyclines (e.g., tet.B and tet.39), sulfonamides (e.g., sul.1 and sul.2), macrolides and lincosamide (e.g., mph.E, msr.E and abaF). MLST and core genome MLST (cgMLST) showed an extreme diversity among the strains. Several strains isolated from different countries clustered together by cgMLST; however, different clusters shared the same ST. Developing an action plan on AMR, increasing awareness and prohibiting the selling of antibiotics without prescription must be mandatory for this region. Such efforts are critical for enforcing targeted policies on the rational use of carbapenem compounds and controlling AMR dissemination and emergence in general.

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The Artemisinin Resistance in Southeast Asia: An Imminent Global Threat to Malaria Elimination

Towards Malaria Elimination - A Leap Forward ◽

10.5772/intechopen.76519 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Aung Pyae Phyo ◽

François Nosten

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Malaria Elimination ◽

Artemisinin Resistance ◽

Global Threat

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On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

Journal of Southeast Asian History ◽

10.1017/s0084255900007944 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 73-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John R. W. Small

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Contemporary History ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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