Transnational Norm-Building in Global Health: The Important Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Westphalian Politics Paper for the Sixth Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Turin (12- 15 September 2007) Draft, do not cite without permission Wolfgang Hein / Lars Kohlmorgen Outline Introduction 1. Norms and the norm-building cycle 2. Economic, social and cultural human rights and the right to health 3. Transformation from a Westphalian international system to a post-Westphalian global system 4. The case of health: From “health for all” to “access to medicines” 5. Conclusion Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein German Institute of Global and Area Studies Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg Germany Tel.:+49-40-42825-558 hein <at> giga-hamburg.de staff.giga-hamburg.de/hein www. giga-hamburg.de/ghg (research project Global Health Governance) Dr. Lars Kohlmorgen University of Hamburg Centre for Globalisation and Governance Allende-Platz 1 20146 Hamburg Germany Tel.:+49-40-42838-7247 lars.kohlmorgen <at> uni-hamburg.de http://www.ipgovernance.eu/project/kohlmorgen.html www. giga-hamburg.de/ghg Wolfgang Hein is Head of the Research Programme “Transformation in the Process of Globalization” at GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg. His main research interests are in the fields of globalization, sustainability and development and global governance with a focus of health. Lars Kohlmorgen is senior research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Hamburg and associ- ated research fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. His main research interests are in the fields of International Relations, globalization, global governance, global social policy, civil society and politics of intellectual property rights. 1