AIDS, Ebola, SARS and Malaria - the list of deadly infectious diseases that provoke panic and cause devastating losses of life and economic welfare is virtually endless. In recent years the fight against infectious diseases has become a catalyst for cooperation in a world that is truly united by contagion. To an unprecedented degree, governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, and private sector businesses are banding together to contain, control and, when possible, cure infectious diseases. This book examines the nature and politics of global cooperation to combat infectious diseases in a world more interconnected than at any point in history.

Many have proclaimed the fundamentals of global security were altered by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Do these changes undercut or enhance the role of the United Nations? What do events like the role of the UN in the crisis over Iraq tell us? Here top scholars examine the role of the UN in preventing international and civil violence, arms control, deterring and reversing aggression, and addressing humanitarian crises. The chapters are concise while providing depth of understanding of the issues, positions and problems facing the United Nations and its member states in grappling with increased opportunities and threats. Their lively presentations of the drama of UN debates establish the contributions and shortcomings of global multilateralism in an era of U.S. hegemony and unilateralism. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada KATHRYN FURLONG PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in the Department of Political Science and a Research Associate with the International Peace Research Institutes (Oslo) Conditions of War and Peace Program FEN OSLER HAMPSON Professor and Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada BRIAN L. JOB Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ASIF R. KHAN Has been working for the United Nations since 1995. He is currently Political Affairs Officer in the Africa Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA W. ANDY KNIGHT Professor in the Department of Political Science and the McCalla research Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Geneva, Switzerland JOANNE LEE Australian lawyer and is currently in a PhD programme, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada GIL LOESCHER Senior Fellow for Forced Displacement and International Security at The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, UK and Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, UK EDWARD C. LUCK is Director of the Center on International Organization and Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, USA ANDREW MACK Director of the Human Security Center at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada ALLEN G. SENS Senior Ins MARKET 1: Politics; International Relations; National Security; Terrorism

AIDS, Ebola, SARS and malaria--the list of deadly infectious diseases that provoke panic and cause devastating losses of life and economic welfare is virtually endless. In recent years the fight against infectious diseases has become a catalyst for cooperation in a world that is truly united by contagion. To an unprecedented degree, governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, and private sector businesses are banding together to contain, control, and, when possible, cure infectious diseases. This book examines the nature and politics of global cooperation to combat infectious diseases in a world more interconnected than at any point in history.

Many have proclaimed the fundamentals of global security were altered by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Do these changes undercut or enhance the role of the United Nations? What do events like the role of the UN in the crisis over Iraq tell us? Here top scholars examine the role of the UN in preventing international and civil violence, arms control, deterring and reversing aggression, and addressing humanitarian crises. The chapters are concise while providing depth of understanding of the issues, positions and problems facing the United Nations and its member states in grappling with increased opportunities and threats. Their lively presentations of the drama of UN debates establish the contributions and shortcomings of global multilateralism in an era of U.S. hegemony and unilateralism. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada KATHRYN FURLONG PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in the Department of Political Science and a Research Associate with the International Peace Research Institutes (Oslo) Conditions of War and Peace Program FEN OSLER HAMPSON Professor and Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada BRIAN L. JOB Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ASIF R. KHAN Has been working for the United Nations since 1995. He is currently Political Affairs Officer in the Africa Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA McCalla research Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada KEITH KRAUSE Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland JOANNE LEE Australian lawyer and is currently in a PhD programme, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada GIL LOESCHER Senior Fellow for Forced Displacement and International Security at The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, UK and Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, UK EDWARD C. LUCK is Director of the Center on International Organization and Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, USA ANDREW MACK Director of the Human Security Center at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada ALLEN G. SENS Senior Ins MARKET 1: Politics; International Relations; National Security; Terrorism

Diseases do not recognize national borders, and as we are gradually learning, failure to govern health effectively at a global level profoundly affects us all. This book is about how global health governance has evolved to become stronger, more complex, and more important than ever before in history.