In passing resolutions on HIV/AIDS, Ebola and COVID-19, the Security Council has shown at least a interest in health, calls have been made to give it more central role global disease response. this contribution, reflecting two decades of UNSC’s engagement with health emergencies, I suggest we should be cautious about making too pandemic focus three problems Council: that is highly politicised d...

Abstract What explains why the United Nations Security Council meets and deliberates on some armed conflicts but not others? We advance a theoretical argument centred role of conflict externalities, state interests interest heterogeneity. investigate data Council's deliberation in 1989–2019 period make three key findings: (1) that generate substantive military or civilian deaths are more likely...