This year at the UACES Annual Conference in Trento, Ricardo Pereira (Dublin City University) presented his ongoing doctoral research on EU securitisation of health. His paper was part of the panel The EU as a Global Health Actor – Between Securitisation and Cooperation, organised by the EUHealthGov network. His research aims to understand how the Union in March 2020 became empowered by the member states to assume the role of coordinator of the EU response against the pandemic and its consequences across social, economic, and health sectors by asking: How the EU discourse, particularly the Commission, did reflect the collective securitisation of COVID-19, between 2020 and September 2021?
Read the full summary of his presentation here
About the author: Ricardo Pereira (School of Law and Government, Dublin City University) is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at Dublin City University. He also serves as a data coder for the project ”EXCEPTIUS Exceptional Powers in Times of Sars-CoV-2 Crisis.”. His research has primarily revolved around topics, such as Private Security Companies, EU Health Security, and Securitization studies.