Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy’s international-security editor; his weekly column for the site has been published since September 2001. He is a consultant to the Oxford Research Group, for which he produces a monthly security briefing. Among his books are Losing Control (Pluto Press, 3rd edition [forthcoming], 2009); A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century (Pluto Press, 2006); Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (Routledge, 2007); and Why We're Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007)

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The key military-spending choices taken in London over the next year will answer the question of what kind of country Britain is becoming.

The little-noticed construction of a huge military facility in Jordan is a symptom of the dominant world’s failures in responding to the economic, food, climate and political crises of the age.

(This article was first published on 25 June 2009)

The toxic phrase "war on terror" has fallen out of use, but the destructive effects of the real thing continue and even escalate in a period of economic crisis.

 (This article was first published on 18 June 2009)

Al-Qaida invited the well-known SWISH management consultancy to advise the movement in light of Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo that announced a “new beginning” in the United States’s relationship with the Muslim world. This is the report, exclusive to openDemocracy.

The global opportunity to reduce the nuclear danger may be greater than North Korea’s weapons-test implies.