Prof Stefan Elbe

Biography

B.Sc. (Econ) in International Relations, LSE; Ph.D. in International Relations, LSE

Stefan Elbe joined the Department in 2004 after holding previous positions at the London School of Economics, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the University of Warwick, and the University of Essex. He has served as Head of the International Relations Department and as Director of Research for the School of Global Studies.

Role

Director, Centre for Global Health Policy

Professor of International Relations

Community and Business

I am currently the Principal Investigator on a four-yar €1.2 million grant from the European Research Council (2013-2017). I have also served as an expert scientific advisor to the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). He is also a member of the Future Security Advisory Board.

Global Health, The International Politics of Disease, Health Security, Bio-Security, Pandemics, and the international politics of HIV/AIDS. Theories of security including national security, human security, securitzation theory, security and identity, the biopolitics of security, and governmentality.

The Global Politics of Disease

Student Consultation

By appointment.

Elbe, Stefan (2011) Should health professionals play the global health security card? Lancet, 378 (9787). pp. 220-221. ISSN 0140-6736

Elbe, Stefan (2010) Haggling over viruses: the downside risks of securitizing infectious disease. Health Policy and Planning, 25 (6). pp. 476-485. ISSN 0268-1080

Elbe, Stefan (2010) Security and global health: toward the medicalization of insecurity. Polity Press. ISBN 9780745643748

Elbe, Stefan (2010) HIV/Aids and security. In: Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 331-345. ISBN 9780199548859

Elbe, Stefan (2009) Virus alert: security, governmentality, and the AIDS pandemic. Columbia University Press, Chichester, United Kingdom and New York. ISBN 9780231148689

Elbe, Stefan (2008) Risking lives: AIDS, security and three concepts of risk. Security Dialogue, 39 (2-3). pp. 177-198. ISSN 0967-0106

Elbe, Stefan (2008) Our epidemiological footprint: the circulation of avian flu, SARS, and HIV/AIDS in the world economy. Review of International Political Economy, 15 (1). pp. 116-130. ISSN 0969-2290

Elbe, Stefan (2008) Pandemic security. In: The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies. Routledge Handbooks . Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York. ISBN 9780415463614

Elbe, Stefan (2007) Our epidemiological footprint: the circulation of avian flu, SARS and HIV/AIDS in the world economy. Review of International Political Economy, 15 (1). pp. 116-130. ISSN 0969-2290

Elbe, Stefan (2007) HIV/AIDS and security. In: Contemporary security studies. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 331-345. ISBN 9780199284696

Elbe, Stefan and Ostergard, Robert L (2007) HIV/AIDS, the military, and the changing landscape of Africa's security. In: HIV/AIDS, and the threat to national and international security. Global issues . Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills. ISBN 9781403933232

Elbe, Stefan (2006) Should HIV/AIDS be securitized? The ethical dilemmas of linking HIV/AIDS and security. International Studies Quarterly, 50 (1). pp. 119-144. ISSN 0020-8833

Elbe, Stefan (2006) HIV/AIDS: a human security challenge for the 21st century. Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 7 (1). pp. 101-113. ISSN 1936-3419

Elbe, Stefan (2005) AIDS, security, biopolitics. International Relations, 19 (4). pp. 403-419. ISSN 0047-1178

Elbe, Stefan (2005) The European security strategy and the global challenge of disease. In: Disasters, Diseases, Disruptions: a new D-drive for the EU. European Union Institute for Security Studies.

Elbe, Stefan (2005) HIV/AIDS: the international security dimensions. In: New Actors and New Issues in International Security. Palgrave, Basingstoke, United Kingdom and New York, pp. 111-130. ISBN 9781403966971

Elbe, Stefan (2005) Sida, un enjeu global de securite. Politique Etrangere, 70 (1). pp. 163-175. ISSN 0032-342X

Elbe, Stefan (2004) Aid gegen AIDS: Die Auswirkungen von HIV/AIDS muessen in der Entwicklungspolitik einbezogen werden. Internationale Politik, 59 (11).

Elbe, Stefan (2003) Strategic implications of HIV/AIDS. Adelphi (357). Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. ISBN 9780198529125

Elbe, Stefan (2003) HIV/Aids and the security sector in the southern African region. In: New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State. Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 93-112. ISBN 9780754630272

Elbe, Stefan (2003) Eurosomnia: Europe's 'Spiritual Vitality' and the debate on the European idea. In: Meaning and International Relations. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 65-85. ISBN 9780415258128

Elbe, Stefan (2003) Europe: a Nietzschean perspective. Routledge Advances in European Politics . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415369756

Elbe, Stefan (2002) HIV/AIDS and the changing landscape of war in Africa. International Security, 27 (2). pp. 159-177. ISSN 0162-2889

Elbe, Stefan (2002) Labyrinths of the future: Nietzsche's genealogy of nationalism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 7 (1). pp. 77-96. ISSN 1356-9317

Elbe, Stefan (2001) We good Europeans: genealogical reflections on the idea of Europe. Millennium, 30 (2). pp. 259-283. ISSN 0305-8298

Elbe, Stefan (2000) European Nihilism and annihilation in the twentieth century. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 1 (3). pp. 43-72. ISSN 1469-0764

Elbe, Stefan (2000) Of seismographs and earthquakes: Nietzsche, nihilism and genocide. In: Enlightenment and Genocide: Contradictions of Modernity. Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 9780820446578