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.

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.