Dr Alexander Kelle
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Head of the Department of European Studies and Modern
Languages, University of Bath
University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 385268•
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 386099
E-mail: A.Kelle@bath.ac.uk
Summary
Dr Alexander Kelle joined the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath
in September 2007 as Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. He received his PhD from J.W.
Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main in 1996. Before coming to Bath he held positions at Queen’s
University Belfast, the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, the Center for
International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.
His research interests include international security, international relations theory, US foreign and security
policy, and international public health. Recent publications include Controlling Biochemical Weapons.
Adapting Multilateral Arms Control for the 21st Century, co-authored with M. Dando and K. Nixdorff
(Palgrave 2006), ‘The Securitization of International Public Health’ (Global Governance, 2007) and
'International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda' (International Studies Review, 2007), co-authored with R.
Dimitrov, D. Sprinz and G. DiGiusto. He lectures on International Relations, International Security, and
Foreign Policy Analysis.
Selected Publications
 Kelle. A 2009 Synthetic Biology. The Technoscience and its Societal Consequences, co-edited with M.
Schmidt, A.G. Mitra and H. DeVriend, Springer Science + Business Media.
 Kelle. A 2006 Controlling Biochemical Weapons. Adapting Multilateral Arms Control for the 21st
Century, with M. Dando and K. Nixdorff, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
 Kelle. A 2001 The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents, with Malcolm R. Dando and Kathryn
Nixdorff (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publ.
 Kelle. A 2010 Strengthening BWC Prevention of State-sponsored Bioweapons, with M. Dando and K.
Nixdorff, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol.66, No.1, pp.18-23.
 Kelle. A 2009a Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity. From low levels of awareness to a comprehensive
strategy, EMBO Reports, Vol.10, Special Issue, S23-S27.
 Kelle. A 2009b Ensuring the Security of Synthetic Biology - towards a 5P governance strategy, in Systems
and Synthetic Biology, Vol.3, pp.85-90.
 Kelle. A 2008b SYNBIOSAFE e-conference: online community discussion on the societal aspects of
synthetic biology, in Systems and Synthetic Biology, co-authored with M. Schmidt et.al., in Systems and
Synthetic Biology.
 Kelle. A 2007a The Securitization of International Public Health. Implications for Global Health
Governance and the Biological Weapons Prohibition Regime, in Global Governance, Vol.13, No.2,
pp.217-235.
 Kelle. A 2005 Science, technology and the CBW control regimes, in Disarmament Forum, Issue 1/2005,
pp.7-16.
 Kelle. A 2004 Assessing the Effectiveness of Security Regimes - The Chemical Weapons Control Regime's
First 6 Years of Operation, in International Politics, Vol.41, 2004, pp.221-242.
 Kelle. A 2003a Strengthening the Effectiveness of the BTW Control Regime - Feasibility and Options, in
Contemporary Security Policy, Vol.24, No.2, August, pp.95-132.
 Kelle. A 2003b The Chemical Weapons Convention After Its First Review Conference - Is the Glass HalfFull or Half-Empty?, in Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 71, June 2003, pp.31-40.
 Kelle. A 2003c Normative and Utilitarian Approaches to Arms Control. Book Review of J. Goldblat, 'Arms
Control', 2nd Ed. and J. Larsen (ed.), 'Arms Control - Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment', in
International Studies Review, Vol.47, No.3, September, pp.386-9.
 Kelle. A 2009a Security Issues Related to Synthetic Biology. Between Threat Perception and Governance
Options, in M. Schmidt et al. (eds.) Synthetic Biology. The Science and Societal Consequences, Springer
Science + Business Media, pp.101-119.
 Kelle. A 2009b Summary and Conclusions, in M. Schmidt et al. (eds.) Synthetic Biology. The Science and
Societal Consequences, Springer Science + Business Media, pp.177-184.
 Kelle. A 2006 Chemical and Biological Weapons Export Controls. Towards Regime Integration, in D.
Joyner (ed.), Multilateral Export Control Regimes, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.101-118.
 Kelle. A 2005 Multilateral Arms Control as a Response to NBC Proliferation: a New Transatlantic Divide?
in H. Gärtner and I.M. Cuthbertson (eds.), European Security and Transatlantic Relations After 9/11 and
the Iraq War, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp.215-230.
 2002b Die Atombombe des Kleinen Mannes? - Biologische Waffen und ihre multilaterale Kontrolle, in T.
Steiner (Hg.): Genpool - Biopolitik und Körperutopien, [The Poor Man's Atom Bomb - Biological Weapons
and Their Multilateral Controls] Wien: Passagen Verlag, pp.334-353.
 2002c The Chemical and Biological Weapons Control Regimes: Achievements, Shortcomings, and Policy
Options, in Vicente Garrido (ed.), The future of the WMD non-proliferation regimes. Tasks ahead for the
Spanish EU Presidency, UNISCI Papers, 24-25, Madrid, pp.23-55.
 2008 A Paradigm Shift in the CBW Proliferation Problem: Devising Effective Restraint on the Evolving
Biochemical Threat, with M. Dando and K. Nixdorff, Forschung DSF No.12, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung
Friedensforschung, 68 pp.
 2007a (ed.) The Changing Scientific and Technological Basis of the CBW Proliferation Problem, Bradford
Science and Technology Paper Series, February 2007, online available at
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/ST_Reports/ST_Report_No_7.pdf