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Maritime Insurance Assemblages in the 21st Century

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Posted on 31 October 2011

Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero (SPIRE, Emerging Securities Unit/RISS) gave a public lecture at the University of Kassel, Germany, analysing the strategies developed by the maritime insurance industry in the last decade to secure sea lanes from piracy events. The lecture, which took place on 27 October 2011, was followed by a PhD doctoral training workshop drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of his work on insurance as a global security technology and the biopolitics of security.

Earlier in the month (6 October 2011), Luis gave a presentation at the University of Hamburg discussing the problem of global order in light of current challenges to maritime circulation. He spoke in the context of a conference entitled ‘Operations of the Global, Explorations of Dis/Connectivity’ and argued for the need to re-problematise ideas of uncertainty in light of shifts in risk-based understandings of security.

These presentations disseminate parts of his forthcoming book Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk , which will be published by Routledge in the Spring 2012.

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