Dr Christian Enemark
BA(Hons), LLB(Hons) Sydney, PhD ANU
Christian Enemark specialises in the security implications of infectious disease threats, including biological weapons, and in the ethics of armed conflict. Prior to completing a PhD at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Christian worked as a policy advisor in the Parliament and Attorney General's Department of NSW. He was Lecturer in Global Security at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, before joining the University of Sydney in January 2007. Throughout 2007 and 2008 he was a Visiting Fellow of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU and an appointed member of the National Consultative Committee on International Security Issues (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).
Christian is the founding Director (Sydney) of the National Centre for Biosecurity, an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Policing and Security (CEPS), and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is currently a Chief Investigator for a 3-year ARC Discovery Project on ‘Infectious Disease, Security and Ethics’.
In the Master on International Security program, he teaches the units CISS6004 Disease and Security and CISS6005 Ethics, Law and War.
Recent Publications
Enemark, C 2009 ‘Regional Health and Global Security: the Asian Cradle of Pandemic Influenza,’ in William T. Tow (ed.), Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Enemark C and Ramshaw I 2009 'Gene Technology, Biological Weapons, and the Security of Science', Security Studies 18, no. 3: 624-41
Enemark C 2009 ‘Pandemic Influenza and Security' in Amy Eckert and Laura Sjoberg (eds.), Rethinking the 21st Century: ‘New’ Problems, ‘Old’ Solutions, London: Zed Books.
Enemark C 2009 'Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat?', Survival, vol.51:1, pp. 191-214.
Enemark C 2008 ‘Book Review: Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge,’ Journal of Military Ethics 7, no.4: 320-322.
Enemark C 2008 ‘Triage, Treatment and Torture: Ethical Challenges for US Military Medicine in Iraq,’ Journal of Military Ethics 7, no.3: 186-201.
Enemark C 2008 '´Non-Lethal´ Weapons and the Occupation of Iraq: Technology, Ethics and Law,' Cambridge Review of International Affairs 21, no.2: 199-215.
Enemark C 2008 'US Bioterrorism Policy,' in Alex Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Richard Devetak and Sara Davies (eds.), Security and the War on Terror: Civil-Military Cooperation in a New Age, London: Routledge.
Selgelid M and Enemark C 2008 ‘Infectious Diseases, Security and Ethics: The Case of HIV/AIDS’, Bioethics 22, no. 9: 457-465.
Enemark C 2007 'Book review: The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force,' Australian Journal of Politics and History 53, no.3: 500-501.
Enemark C 2007 Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, Routledge, London.
Enemark C 2007 'Health Security Challenges: Biological Weapons and Pandemic Influenza', Security Challenges 3, no.3: 131-43.
Enemark C 2006 'Securitizing Infectious Diseases' in Ethics and Infectious Disease, ed. M.Selgelid, M.P Battin and B Smith, Blackwell, Malden.
Enemark C 2006 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' in Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, ed. R. Ayson and D. Ball, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Enemark C (ed.) 2006 Ethics of War in a Time of Terror, Canberra Paper on Strategy and Defence Monograph no.163, Australian National University, Canberra.
Enemark C 2006 'Biological Attacks and the Non-State Actor: a Threat Assessment ', Intelligence and National Security 21, no.6: 911-930.
Enemark C 2006 'Pandemic Influenza and National Security', Australian Defence Force Journal no.171: 18-32.
Enemark C 2006 'Pandemic Pending', Australian Journal of International Affairs 60, no.1: 43-49.
Enemark C 2006 'United State Biodefense, International Law, and the Problem of Intent', Politics and the Life Sciences 24, nos.1-2: 32-42.
Enemark C 2006 ‘Preventing Accidental Disease Outbreaks: Biosafety in East Asia,’ Nautilus Institute Online, Austral Policy Forum 06-31A, 7 September 2006.
Enemark C and Michaelsen C 2005 'Just War Doctrine and the Invasion of Iraq', Australian Journal of Politics and History 51, no.4: 545-563.
Enemark C 2005 'Disease Surveillance and Response: Update on the Biological Weapons Convention', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 29, no.5: 484-486.
Enemark C 2005 'Infectious Diseases and International Security: The Biological Weapons Convention and Beyond,' Nonproliferation Review 12, no.1: 107-125.
Enemark C 2005 'The Bird Flu Menace in East Asia', Security Challenges 1, no.1: 7-10.
Enemark C 2004 Disease Security in Northeast Asia: Biological Weapons and Natural Plagues. Canberra Paper on Strategy and Defence Monograph no.156, Australian National University, Canberra.
Enemark C 2004 'Book Review: ‘Living by the Sword? The Ethics of Armed Intervention´', Australian Army Journal 2, no.1: 279-281.
Enemark C 2003 Biological Weapons: An Overview of Threats and Responses. Working Paper No. 379. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.