REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND EMERGENCY POLITICS: a study of Regional IOs' emergency policies generated during the COVID-19 pandemic (Sars-Cov-2)
Ph.D. dissertation
(2020-2024)
Based on the understanding that the COVID-19 pandemic was, above all, a stress test for collective action at the continental and regional levels (MEDINILLA; BYIERS; APIKO, 2020), this doctoral thesis discusses the work of Regional International Organizations (Regional IOs) in emergency management, taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. The main objective of the thesis is to explain the factors that led Regional Organizations to generate emergency policies as responses to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The research methodology follows a multi-method approach divided into two moments. At first, I will use data from 20 Regional Organizations to conduct statistical tests using panel data. Then, I will conduct in-depth case studies using the process tracking technique. The research intends to generate theoretical and empirical contributions to emergency politics in International Politics. In this way, it is hoped that this dissertation will yield valuable results that can be mobilized to manage future emergencies, especially those that need coordinated regional actions to resolve.