The thesis deals with the concept of (neo)colonialism and the imperialist ideology through historical-theoretical analysis. We also deal with the analysis of discourse, especially the concept of development, which is inexplicably linked with our topic. A historical analysis of both colonialism and its successor – neocolonialism, leads us to address global health: firstly colonial public health, and then neocolonial global health, which we associate with private philanthropic foundations, which, today, have an important role in forming global health politics. We are especially interested in the interaction between states on a global scale – the effects, and the reasons behind them, on the states of the global south and their health systems. In the second part of the thesis, we address neocolonial practices in the case of the current COVID-19 pandemic: patent law, which enables monopolies of private pharmaceutical companies, vaccine nationalism, and predominant, still colonial, discourses, which subjugate the states of the global south without any possibilities for co-operation in global strategies for managing the pandemic.
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