id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-015552-pm9kdqdw Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian China vs the WHO: a behavioural norm conflict in the SARS crisis 2019-05-01 .txt text/plain 8263 390 46 On the one hand, the established norm of sovereignty, particularly the principle of non-interference, had structured a regime for dealing with infectious disease outbreaks that provided ground rules of conduct but ascribed decision-making authority to member states alone. 33 This sediment of the unfinished IHR revision process reveals the limited degree to which the emerging norm of global health security had been accepted prior to the SARS outbreak: the powers conferred upon the WHO to deal with infectious disease outbreaks remained extremely limited and-apart from the outbreak information issue-mostly subject to member-state agreement. 35 This section of the article analyses the actions of China and the WHO during the SARS crisis as representing a behavioural norm conflict over the relative priority of sovereignty and global health security. ./cache/cord-015552-pm9kdqdw.txt ./txt/cord-015552-pm9kdqdw.txt