Anna Stavrianakis, Jan Selby  Militarism and International Relations: Political economy, security, theory  (Routledge, August 2012)

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies. Militarism - understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence - is an abiding and defining characteristic of world politics. Yet despite the on going social, political and economic reach of military institutions, practices and values, the concept and subject of militarism has not received significant attention within recent debates in International Relations. This book intends to fill the gap in the current body of literature. It has two key overarching aims: to make the case for a renewed research agenda for IR centred on the concept of militarism; and to provide a series of empirically focused and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary militarism in practice.

Anna Stavrianakis Taking Aim at the Arms Trade  (Zed Books, June 2010)

This book takes a critical look at the ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. The book analyses the tensions inherent in NGOs' engagement with the arms trade and argues for a re-examination of dominant assumptions about NGOs as global civil society actors.

Stefan Elbe, Security and Global Health  (Polity Press, March 2010)

In this book Stefan Elbe shows that in the new millennium international politics is characterized by its need to urgently confront what is now an epidemic of epidemics. Over the past decade a whole host of diverse global health issues have raised the highest levels of political concern, provoking governments and international institutions to tackle such health threats through the prism of security. It is this transformation of security, Elbe argues in an innovative and engaging re-conceptualization of the health-security nexus, that marks nothing short of the medicalization of security.

Sergio Catignani’s edited collection Israel and Hizbollah: An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective (Routledge, November 2009, with Clive Jones)

This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon. This book focuses on the historical background of the conflict, while also considering the role that other external actors, most notably Syria, Iran and the United Nations, play in influencing the conduct and outcomes of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.

Stefan Elbe’s Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality and the AIDS Pandemic  (Columbia University Press, July 2009)

This book analyses the security implications of HIV/AIDS. The book 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. Stefan’s 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.