Peter Lehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 2570581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehr |
| SIGNATURE | LEHR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6387-398X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eustace the Monk
Bandits have been popular 'heroic' individuals throughout history. Many of them also proved to be quite useful figures, allowing interested parties to fill in gaps in their capacities on the quick by way of co-opting them. Such 'interested parties' even included kings, whose authority still was a rather limited one. A particularly glaring gap in their authority existed at sea: keeping a fleet at the ready was quite expensive, and affordable only …
Pirates
Counter-Terrorism Technologies
Introduction
The Sound of War Drums
Militant Buddhism
Presents the rise of militant Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. Deals with political theology and the return of religion, and Theravada Buddhist discourses on violence and non-violence in theory and practice. Explores what monks are supposed to do and what roles they are meant to play in a society, monks and traditional politics, and traditional monks and contemporary monks. Presents case studies on the relationship between rel…
Political Resilience and EU Responses to Aviation Terrorism
In this article, we examine how European authorities have responded to reported threats to aviation resulting from individual terrorist tactics. We do so by applying the notion of political resilience and drawing on Palonen's “policy, polity, politicking, and politicization” model as well as on Malcolm Anderson's concept of “politics of the latest outrage.” We argue that the European Union response to aviation terrorism has created polity transfo…
Piracy and maritime governance in the Indian Ocean
During the late 1990s and the early 2000s, this author conducted a comparative study on regime building in the world's three maritime ‘mega regions’, i.e., the Atlantic, the (Asia-) Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The aim was to explain why regime building is so difficult in the latter as compared to the former two, and why newly formed regimes tend to end up as ‘sandbanks of shattered hope’ soon after their inauguration. Many reasons were offered …
Political Resilience and EU Responses to Aviation Terrorism
In this article, we examine how European authorities have responded to reported threats to aviation resulting from individual terrorist tactics. We do so by applying the notion of political resilience and drawing on Palonen's “policy, polity, politicking, and politicization” model as well as on Malcolm Anderson's concept of “politics of the latest outrage.” We argue that the European Union response to aviation terrorism has created polity transfo…
Militant Buddhism
Presents the rise of militant Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. Deals with political theology and the return of religion, and Theravada Buddhist discourses on violence and non-violence in theory and practice. Explores what monks are supposed to do and what roles they are meant to play in a society, monks and traditional politics, and traditional monks and contemporary monks. Presents case studies on the relationship between rel…
Piracy and maritime governance in the Indian Ocean
During the late 1990s and the early 2000s, this author conducted a comparative study on regime building in the world's three maritime ‘mega regions’, i.e., the Atlantic, the (Asia-) Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The aim was to explain why regime building is so difficult in the latter as compared to the former two, and why newly formed regimes tend to end up as ‘sandbanks of shattered hope’ soon after their inauguration. Many reasons were offered …
Political Resilience and EU Responses to Aviation Terrorism
In this article, we examine how European authorities have responded to reported threats to aviation resulting from individual terrorist tactics. We do so by applying the notion of political resilience and drawing on Palonen's “policy, polity, politicking, and politicization” model as well as on Malcolm Anderson's concept of “politics of the latest outrage.” We argue that the European Union response to aviation terrorism has created polity transfo…
Militant Buddhism
Presents the rise of militant Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. Deals with political theology and the return of religion, and Theravada Buddhist discourses on violence and non-violence in theory and practice. Explores what monks are supposed to do and what roles they are meant to play in a society, monks and traditional politics, and traditional monks and contemporary monks. Presents case studies on the relationship between rel…
Pirates
Counter-Terrorism Technologies
Introduction
The Sound of War Drums
Eustace the Monk
Bandits have been popular 'heroic' individuals throughout history. Many of them also proved to be quite useful figures, allowing interested parties to fill in gaps in their capacities on the quick by way of co-opting them. Such 'interested parties' even included kings, whose authority still was a rather limited one. A particularly glaring gap in their authority existed at sea: keeping a fleet at the ready was quite expensive, and affordable only …
Political science (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)