id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-017857-fdn8c4hx Leanza, Matthias The Darkened Horizon: Two Modes of Organizing Pandemics 2018-02-06 .txt text/plain 5013 264 50 Since roughly the year 2000, the World Health Organization has collaborated with a large number of local actors and made a concentrated effort to protect the world's population against emerging infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), swine flu, Ebola and Zika. Without the capacity of organizations to produce binding decisions for their members, which makes planning for an uncertain future possible, pandemic preparedness would not be feasible—especially not on a global scale. Around the year 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) started collaborating with a large number of local actors and made a concentrated effort to protect the world's population against emerging infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), swine flu, Ebola and Zika. With regard to the WHO, which was established in 1948, I will discuss the question of how supranational coordination and planning for the future is rendered possible by building formal organizations and organizational networks at a global level. ./cache/cord-017857-fdn8c4hx.txt ./txt/cord-017857-fdn8c4hx.txt