The management of the SARS outbreak in 2003 marked a seminal moment for the governance of international disease threats. David Fidler will analyze the governance of the SARS crisis and its impact on the emerging architecture of global health governance, particularly as reflected in the new International Health Regulations adopted in 2005 by the World Health Organization. Ho-fung Hung will discuss how most governmental and international institutions espoused a globalist response which relied on global cooperation to deal with the epidemic. But an anti-globalist response, which racialized the disease by invoking the long dormant discourse of “yellow perils” and attempted to contain the disease by containing certain ethnic groups, also surfaced. By learning the lessons from these different responses and by comparing the SARS experience with other recent pandemics, we could be better prepared for any global, and perhaps more devastating, pandemics in the future.