Epidemics, diseases and international security

Two Epidemics and Global Health Security Agenda

February 2014 witnessed two remarkable public health events’ start on Earth: The first case of Ebola outbreak in West Africa was confirmed. A total number of suspected and confirmed cases in the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) outbreak had increased to 28,637 cases, including 15,249 laboratory-confirmed cases and 11,324 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Spain, and t...

International Engagement Is Critical to Fighting Epidemics

I n the past 15 years, a series of infectious disease emergencies—the anthrax attacks in 2001, the rapid global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the emergence and international spread of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the largest Ebola epidemic on record, and the emergence and spread of Zika virus—hav...

AIDS and International Security

Epidemics in Networks: Modeling, Optimization and Security Games

Taming Lakatos' Monster - Computer Virus Epidemics and Internet Security Policy

A few months back I received an email inviting me to speak at WebNet 2000. I was pleasantly surprised and ready to accept until I read the proposed topic of my talk “computer security and computer viruses”. I was dumbfounded. I am a lawyer by training, teaching at a policy school and in my research I focus on information technology policy. Why on earth then do they want me to talk about compute...