This book is a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease in security terms.

In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly low politics of global health meet the high politics of security, and when the logic of security comes to shape global health initiatives. More specifically, the book s empirical objective is to examine the efficacy of securitization as a transformative strategy, while its theoretical objective is to move beyond the current impasse between two variants of securitization theory: the discursively-focused...