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Description for Virus Alert
Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affects the discussion of the disease in international policy debates, but also transforms the very nature and function of security within global politics. In his analysis of the security implications of HIV/AIDS, Stefan Elbe addresses three concerns: the empirical evidence that justifies framing HIV/AIDS as a security issue, the meaning of ... Read more
Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affects the discussion of the disease in international policy debates, but also transforms the very nature and function of security within global politics. In his analysis of the security implications of HIV/AIDS, Stefan Elbe addresses three concerns: the empirical evidence that justifies framing HIV/AIDS as a security issue, the meaning of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148689
SKU
V9780231148689
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About Stefan Elbe
Stefan Elbe is reader (associate professor) in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches security studies. Previously, he held positions at the London School of Economics, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the University of Essex, and the University of Warwick.
Reviews for Virus Alert
an important case study. Survival Virus Alert offers a fine security analysis of the implications of HIV and AIDS. The Midwest Book Review A provocative and controversial book on the subject of HIV/AIDS and national security... Highly Recommended. Choice An elegant, intellectually stimulating contribution that provides a timely, empirically grounded, and indeed most welcome critical analysis of recent associations of ... Read more