The responses of states and the WHO to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the considerable weaknesses of international organizations. Although the Trump administration has misdiagnosed the WHO's ills, the WHO has indeed failed to meet the public health threat posed by the coronavirus. The WHO's responses to the current crisis demonstrate that it shares five disorders common to other UN system expert-driven organizations: overdependence on states; singular reliance on “managerial” approaches to enforcement; inflexible emergency declarations; absence of regularized systems for inter-regime collaboration; and common bureaucratic pathologies.

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冠状病毒时代的世界卫生组织

各国和世界卫生组织对 COVID-19 大流行的反应揭示了国际组织的相当大的弱点。尽管特朗普政府误诊了世卫组织的弊病，但世卫组织确实未能应对新冠病毒带来的公共卫生威胁。世卫组织对当前危机的反应表明，它与联合国系统其他专家驱动的组织共有五种疾病：过度依赖国家；单一地依赖“管理”方法来执行；不灵活的紧急声明；缺乏制度间合作的正规化系统；和常见的官僚主义病态。