This thesis takes a deeper insight to examine why EU is blocking the waiver for intellectual property and how it can be understood as structural violence by taking a neoliberal framework. The empirical material consists of different materials from the EU commission and EU parliament and is analyzed through an ideology analysis with predetermined categorizations to be able to identify ideas of neoliberalism in the empirical material. The result of this theses shows that there is a neoliberal ideology within EU, and it has influenced the policies it has adopted. The neoliberal ideas have prioritized the pharmaceutical companies by removing market barriers and protecting intellectual property rights on account of an even distribution between countries. The three most concrete solutions to achieve even distribution of the vaccine were COVAX, compulsory license and voluntary license. These, on the other hand, have not been successful in increasing the distribution of vaccine to low-income countries, which has led to people dying. This thesis understands this problem as an effect of structural violence, because these deaths may have been preventable as they occurred only because of uneven vaccine distribution between countries.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-199127 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Appeltofft, Jakob |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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