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 the
term "security" when used in relation to the disease, and the
political consequences of responding to the AIDS pandemic in the
language of security. His book exposes the dangers that accompany
efforts to manage the global spread of HIV/AIDS through the policy
frameworks of national security, human security, and risk
management. Beyond developing strategies for mitigating these
dangers, Elbe's research reveals that, in construing the AIDS
pandemic as a threat, policymakers and international institutions
also implicitly seek to integrate current security practices within
a particular rationalization of political rule. Elbe identifies
this transformation as the "governmentalization" of security and,
by drawing on the recently translated work of Michel Foucault,
develops a framework for analyzing its key elements and
consequences.
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