Robert L. Ostergard

HIV/AIDS and the Threat to National and International Security

Herausgegeben:Loparo, Kenneth A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Global Issues
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-3323-2
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781403933232
• ISBN-10: 1403933235
• Artikelnr.: 21908796

Autorenporträt

JAKE BATSELL Journalism instructor, University of North Texas, USA CATHERINE BOONE Professor of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin, USA ROBERT COMPTON Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA STEFAN ELBE Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex, UK DEAN B. KEHOE Freelance writer and photographer CHRISTOPHER MAY Professor of Political Economy and Department Research Director, Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, UK ROBERT L. OSTERGARD, JR Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, USA PREETI PATEL Lecturer in Global Health, Centre on Global Change & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK SUSAN PETERSON Professor Government and Dean for Educational Policy, College of William and Mary, USA NANA K. POKU Ferguson Chair in African Peace and Conflict Studies, Peace Studies Department, Bradford University, UK ANDREW T. PRICE-SMITH Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Colorado College, USA BJORG SANDKJAER Demography Officer with the United Nations Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa SUSAN SELL Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA PAOLO G. TRIPODI Donald Bren Chair of Ethics and Leadership, Marine Corps University, USA MATTHEW TUBIN PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA JEREMY YOUDE Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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