Below are some unfinished papers that may nevertheless be of interest.

Please do not cite these without my permission, which I am usually very happy to give if you contact me briefly on s.elbe@sussex.ac.uk.

'Haggling over Viruses: The Downside Risks of Securitizing Infectious Disease'. Paper presented at the 'Unhealthy Governance: Securitising Infectious Diseases in Asia' workshop. The Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong and the Southeast Asia Research Centre City at the University of Hong Kong, May 2009.

'Viral Sovereignty: Microbial Crises of Circulationband the Biopolitics of Security'. Paper Presented at the Contemporary Biopolitical Security ESRC Seminar Series on ‘Securitising Mobilities and Circulations’.
Claus Moser Research Centre. University of Keele, November 2008.

'Securitizing Epidemics: Three Lessons from History'. Paper presented at 'Impacting health, the environment and global governance. The challenges of taking a security approach'. An International Seminar organised by the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI). Paris, September 2008.

'What Future for the European Political Community?', Paper for the ECPR Joint Sessions, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2006.

'Risking Lives: AIDS, Security and Three Concepts of Risk', 47th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, 2006.

'The Futility of Protest? Biopower and Biopolitics in the Securitization of AIDS', 45th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, 2004.

'Securitizing AIDS: A New Framework for Paralysis?', 44th Meeting of the International Studies Association, Portland, 2003.

'We Good Europeans: Homo Europaeus Beyond East and West', "Homo Europaeus - East and West",  Conference organized by the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies and the Moscow ISE-Center 12-13 May 2006, Schengen, Luxemburg.