Publications

HSP’s work is informed by rigorous research and includes a number of different published materials from academic publications and conferences papers, to presentations, briefing notes and other materials.

Below is a list of some of our latest publications


Governments and governance of bioscience as a ‘‘new security challenge” (2009)

Ashgate Publishing

Nightingale P and McLeish C. In Lyall C et al J (eds) The Limits to Governance:The Challenge of Policy-Making for the New Life S

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The Rise of Biosecurity in International Arms Control (2009)

Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Revill, James and Dando, Malcolm. Chapter in Rappert B and Gould C (eds) Biosecurity: Origins, Transformations and Practices

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Fostering the Biosecurity Norm: Biosecurity Education for the Next Generation of Life Scientists (2008)

Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV, Italy) and Bradford Disarmament Research Centre (University of Bradford, UK)

Mancini, Giulio and Revill, James

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The Yellow Rain Affair: Lessons from a Discredited Allegation (2008)

In Clunan, AL, Lavoy, PR and Martin, SB (eds.) Terrorism, War, or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons | Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Ch. 4, pp. 72-96

Meselson, Matthew S and Robinson, Julian Perry
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Industry, Dual Use and the Changing Function of the CWC (2008)

In: 54th Pugwash CBW Workshop 28th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on Implementation of the CBW Conventions The Second CWC Review Conference and After, 5-6 April 2008, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

McLeish, Caitriona

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Industry, Dual Use and the Changing Function of the Chemical Weapons Convention (2008)

In: Gordon Cain Conference 2008: The Dilemmas of Dual Use, March 27-28th 2008, Philadelphia USA.

McLeish, Caitriona

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Difficulties Facing the Chemical Weapons Convention (2008)

International Affairs 84:2 (2008) 223–239

Robinson, Julian Perry
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Life Scientists and the Need for a Culture of Responsibility: After Education… What? (2008)

Science and Public Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pp. 29-35

Revill, James and Dando, Malcolm

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Biosecurity and Stakeholders: The Rise of Networks and Non-State Actors (2008)

Science and Public Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pp. 5–12.

McLeish, Caitríona and Feakes, Daniel

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Biosecurity, bioterrorism and the governance of science: The increasing convergence of science and s (2007)

Research Policy, Vol. 36, Issue 10, pp. 1635-1654.

McLeish, Caitriona and Nightingale, Paul

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Non Lethal Warfare and the Chemical Weapons Convention (2007)

Harvard Sussex Program | Further HSP Submission to the OPCW Open-Ended Working Group on Preparations for the Second CWC Review Conference

Robinson, Julian Perry
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Countering CBW Proliferation (2007)

In: Countering Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation (WP871), 28th-30th September 2007, Wilton Park.

McLeish, Caitriona and Smith, Mark
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Reflecting on the Problem of Dual Use (2007)

Science in Society Series | Earthscan, London UK and Sterling VA

McLeish, Caitriona. In Rappert B and McLeish C (eds.) A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance

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From disarmament to technology governance: Functional change in the Chemical Weapons Convention (2007)

Netherlands Institute of International Relations | pp.285-300

McLeish, Caitriona. In Trapp R (ed.) OPCW Academic Forum, The Hague, 18-19 September 2007 Conference Proceedings.

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A Web of Prevention: The Life Sciences, Biological Weapons and the Future Governance of Research (2007)

Science in Society Series | Earthscan, London UK and Sterling VA

Rappert, Brian and McLeish, Caitríona (eds.)

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Science and censorship in an age of bio-weapons threat (2006)

Science as Culture, Vol. 15, Issue 3: Biofutures/Biopresents

McLeish, Caitriona

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A Hippocratic Oath for Life Sciences (2006)

EMBO Reports, Vol. 7, Special Issue 1S, pp. s55-s60

Revill, James and Dando, Malcolm

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Analysis and Implications (2006)

In Wheelis, M, Rozsa, L and Dando, M (eds) Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 | Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006

Dando, Malcolm, Pearson, Graham, Rózsa, Lajos, Robinson, Julian Perry, and Wheelis, Mark

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Non-State Actors and the Globalization of CBW Technologies (2005)

Background Document | 23rd Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: Achieving a Successful Outcome of the Sixth Review Conference | Geneva, Switzerland, 3-4 December 2005

Feakes, Daniel, McLeish, Caitríona and Robinson, Julian Perry
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Dual Technology and Perceptions of Iranian Chemical and Biological Weapons (2005)

Harvard Sussex Program, SPRU | Sussex, UK

Robinson, Julian Perry
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Balancing science and security (2005)

Science and Public Affairs, June 2005, pp.16-17.

McLeish, Caitriona

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Effective Action to Strengthen the BTWC Regime: The Impact of Dual Use Controls on UK Science (2005)

In Pearson GS and Dando MR (series eds.) Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, BTWC Briefing Paper No.17 (2nd Series) | Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

McLeish, Caitriona and Nightingale, Paul
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The Impact of Dual Use Controls on UK Science: Results from a Pilot Study (2005)

Report of the completed ESRC Science and Society Project "Dual Use Controls and Genomic Research" | Published in SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series, No. 132, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School.

McLeish, Caitriona and Nightingale, Paul
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A Draft Convention to Prohibit Biological and Chemical Weapons under International Criminal Law (2004)

The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol 28, No 1 (Winter 2004), pp 57-7

Meselson, Matthew S and Robinson, Julian Perry
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The Chemical Weapons Convention in a Changing Political Context (2004)

In Fogelberg, P (ed.) Changing Threats to Global Security: Peace or Turmoil | Proceedings of the XV International Amaldi Conference, 25-27 September 2003 | Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, pp. 211-225. ISBN 9789517691611

Robinson, Julian Perry

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Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance (2004)

World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004

Robinson, Julian Perry (Executive Editor)

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Reactions to Self-censorship (2003)

20th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions: The BWC Intersessional Process towards the Sixth Review Conference and Beyond Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 November 2003.

McLeish, Caitriona
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Global Governance of CBW: Criminalisation and its Impact on State and Non-State Actors (2003)

In: ISA and CEEISA Conference Global Tensions and Their Challenges to Governance of the International Communithy, 26-28 June 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

McLeish, Caitriona
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Memorandum from Professor J P Perry Robinson (2002)

UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix No 2 | First Report of Session 2001-02, The Biological Weapons Green Paper, December 2002

Robinson, Julian Perry

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