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Luis Lobo-Guerrero (born 21 August 1976) is professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.

Career
After completing his B.A. in Political Science with a major in International Relations at Javeriana University in 2000, Lobo-Guerreo did a masters in Defence and Security Analysis at Lancaster University from 2002 to 2003. He continued with a PhD in Lancaster, under the supervision of prof. Michael Dillon, analysing the role of insurance as a global security technology. He was then appointed to a lectureship at Keele University in 2007, and a readership at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2012. Since 2013, he is full professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.

Research interests
Lobo-Guerrero is a leading scholar in the field of International Relations with a specific interest in post-structuralist thought, history of early modern science, historical epistemology, and geopolitics. He has worked on the politics of international security, specifically focussing on the role of insurance as a technology for governing uncertainty. Within Security Studies, he has been a key proponent of the idea of biopolitics of security as an approach that features life as the referent object of security analysis. Currently, he works on exploring the ideas and practices that made it possible to think about the global in the XVIC, and in so doing, explores how globality can be understood as a connectivity effect.

Publications
Monographs

Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk (London: Routledge, 2016).

Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk (London: Routledge, 2013).

Insuring Security: Biopolitics, Security and Risk (London: Routledge, 2012).

Edited volumes

Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires. Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti, and Filipe dos Reis, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2021).

Imaginaries of Connectivity – the creation of novel spaces of governance, Lobo-Guerrero, Luis, Suvi Alt, and Maarten Meijer, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)