HIV AIDS & the Threat to National & International Security

This book expands the framework for understanding the HIV/AIDS pandemic, not only as a humanitarian catastrophe, but also as a threat to state and international security. This collection shows that the pandemic represents one of the most complex security problems confronting individual states and the international system today.

PART I: INTRODUCTION: THE FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS Politics and AIDS: An Emerging Research Agenda in Political Science and International Relations; C.Boone & J.Batsell Human Security, National Security and Epidemic Disease; S.Peterson HIV/AIDS, State Capacity and the Threat to National and International Security: A Theoretical Overview; R.L.Ostergard PART II: HIV/AIDS, THE MILITARY AND PEACEKEEPING HIV/AIDS, the Military and the Changing Landscape of Africa's Security; S.Elbe & R.L.Ostergard Linking HIV to Peacekeepers; P.Patel & P.G.Tripodi PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HIV/AIDS AND SECURITY HIV/AIDS in the Context of Poverty: Africa's Deadly Predicament; N.K.Poku & B.Sandkjaer International Institutions, Intellectual Property and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic; S.Sell Challenging Global Norms: The State, Social Costs and Legal Action; C.May PART IV: HIV/AIDS AND THE THREAT TO STATE CAPACITY, LEGITIMACY AND NATIONAL SECURITY HIV/AIDS and Democratic Legitimacy and Stability in Africa; J.Youde Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in China and India: Assessing Governmental Response; R.Compton The Decay of State Capacity: HIV/AIDS in South Africa's National Security; A.T.Price-Smith, M. Tubin, R.L.Ostergard Index