Globalization and international cooperation have been in the agenda of International Relations for a long time. Global governance on the other hand is an approach that has been developed in a relatively new period, specifically just after the ending of the Cold War and began to be utilized in order to take on the ever complicated and multi-dimensional global issues. In order to develop long-lasting and sustainable solutions to deal with the cross-border problems that has the potential to affect all humanity in the international arena necessitates international actors to adapt multidimensional cooperation rather than to act alone.
International organizations emerge as the most efficient and purpose-built global governance institutions to ensure collaboration and coordination in the international arena. These encompassing and comprehensive institutions, particularly the intergovernmental international organizations work on finding solutions to global problems to within boundaries and scope defined by member states. In this context, the United Nations currently appears as the main cooperation platform where the existing global problems are addressed and solutions to these problems are developed. Pandemics constitutes the global dimension of the public health problems that have been faced by the humanity. Preventing pandemics to emerge and spread and developing protective measures and treatments became an important part of the contemporary global governance agenda.
Within this framework, dealing with pandemics that begin to have more effect and spread rate to the relevant effects of globalization, became a priority in global governance agenda. The short time span of the spread and immediate effects of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in the beginning of 2020 and the human losses have shocked the whole World. The process of coping with the pandemic has shown the significance and necessity of global governance and the need for cooperate in order to tackle global issues, as well as the problems encountered in acting in coordination in these processes. This report aims to take on and analyze the developments in the COVID-19 pandemic health emergency from the perspectives of international actors and international organizations within the context of global governance perspective.
