Dr Peter Lehr, Lecturer in Terrorism Studies
Email: pl17
st-andrews.ac.ukDr Peter Lehr is Lecturer in Terrorism Studies at the CSTPV, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Before taking up his current position in September 2007, he researched the nexus between piracy and maritime terrorism as Lloyd’s Maritime Intelligence Group Research Fellow, also at the CSTPV, from September 2004 to August 2007. Prior to that, he was Lecturer at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, from September 1996 to August 2004.
Dr Lehr has considerable research and teaching experience in the subject areas of Terrorism/Political Violence and Asian Security Relations. Being a regional specialist on the Indian Ocean, he currently specialises on research in the following areas: Maritime Safety and Security in the Indian Ocean/Asia-Pacific (focussing on piracy and maritime terrorism); Political Violence and Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia; and Organised Crime in South and Southeast Asia. He also works on Critical Infrastructure Protection, with a focus on Air- and Seaport Security.
Dr Lehr has published on political Islam in South and Southeast Asia, and on Indian Ocean maritime security issues. He is the editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism (Routledge 2007) and co-editor (together with Rupert Herbert-Burns and Sam Bateman) of Lloyd’s MIU Handbook of Maritime Security (Taylor & Francis 2009). Currently, he is working on a book manuscript on piracy from ancient to modern times, to be published by Yale University Press in Winter 2012/13. He earned his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Bibliography
Peter Lehr. Like a Parcel of Furies: Piracy Throughout the Ages. London and New York: Yale University Press (under preparation)
Peter Lehr and Anthony Richards. A Comprehensive Introduction into the Study of Terrorism. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2012)
Peter Lehr. “Maritime Piracy as a U.S. Foreign Policy Problem: The Case of the Maersk Alabama”, in Carter, Ralph (Ed.). Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade. Washington D.C.: CQ Press 2010
Peter Lehr, Rupert Herbert-Burns, Sam Bateman (Eds). Lloyd’s Maritime Intelligence Unit’s Handbook on Maritime Security. New York: Auerbach Publications 2009
Peter Lehr. “Securing Ports in the Age of Global Terrorism: AIS, LRIT, and the Creation of a Maritime Domain Awareness”, in: Multani, Sukhvinder Kaur (Ed.). Security of Maritime Trade. New Dimensions. Hyderabad: Icfai Books 2008
Peter Lehr. “Asymmetric Threats in the Indian Ocean: What Kind of Threat from Which Kind of Actor?”, in: V. R. Raghavan (Ed.). The Changing Oceanic Landscape in the Indian Ocean Region: Issues and Perspectives of Debate. Chennai: Centre for Security Analysis, and Munich: Hanns Seidel Foundation 2008
Peter Lehr. “Port Security in the United Kingdom”, in: Paul Wilkinson et al. (Eds.): Homeland Security in the United Kingdom. London: Routledge 2007
Peter Lehr (Ed.). Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. New York: Routledge 2007