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About Paul Rogers

 

Paul Rogers is professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy's international-security editor, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 26 September 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. His books include Why We’re Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007), and Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 3rd edition, 2010)

Articles by Paul Rogers

Thursday 2nd September

America in Iraq: power, hubris, change

Paul Rogers, 2 September 2010
The zealous attitudes and fevered misjudgments that drove United States policy towards Iraq in 2003 could yet have a second life over Iran.
Thursday 26th August

Israel’s security: beyond the zero-sum

Paul Rogers, 26 August 2010
The prospects for progress in the direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in Washington are meagre. But breakthrough is essential if Israel is to be saved from itself.
Thursday 19th August

An asymmetrical drone war

Paul Rogers, 19 August 2010
The United States and Israel see the next generation of armed drones as a potent reinforcement of their military capacity against insurgents and rogue states. But Iran and Hizbollah too are in the race.
Thursday 12th August

Al-Qaida’s business jihad

Paul Rogers, 12 August 2010
The failed assault on a Japanese oil supertanker is, alongside developments in Iraq and Yemen, a signal of the al-Qaida movement’s protean challenge.
Thursday 5th August

Israel’s security trap

Paul Rogers, 5 August 2010
Israel’s combative military posture, evident both in a tense border skirmish with Lebanon and in its wider strategic plans, is a recipe for permanent insecurity.
Thursday 29th July

The AfPak war via WikiLeaks

Paul Rogers, 29 July 2010
The release of official United States material by the website Wikileaks confirms and amplifies enduring political assessments of the Afghanistan war, not least on openDemocracy.
Thursday 22nd July

A tale of three wars: Afghanistan, Iraq...Iran

Paul Rogers, 22 July 2010
The United States and its allies are rethinking their commitment to Afghanistan by the week. But an attack on Iran would return all calculations to ground zero.
Thursday 15th July

Israel vs Iran: fallout of a war

Paul Rogers, 15 July 2010
An Israeli assault on Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure and personnel would be far more extensive than many realise. The prospect that it will happen in the next few months is increasing.
Thursday 8th July

Asymmetric war: Iran and the new normal

Paul Rogers, 8 July 2010
The ability of Iran’s military to learn from experience and become adept in irregular warfare echoes that of insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also presents the United States with hard choices.
Thursday 1st July

Afghanistan: an impossible choice

Paul Rogers, 1 July 2010
The replacement of one United States general by another to lead the war against the Taliban leaves untouched the essentials of a failing campaign.
Thursday 24th June

Afghanistan: the fatal error

Paul Rogers, 24 June 2010
The revolving-door experience of United States military commanders in Afghanistan is but symptom of a flawed strategy with its roots in the response to 9/11.
Thursday 17th June

Afghanistan, and the world’s resource war

Paul Rogers, 17 June 2010
A new report that highlights Afghanistan’s extensive mineral deposits provides fuel for the United States’s military project. But it also signals the existence of a wider resource-competition that reflects the 21st-century’s emerging geopolitics.
Friday 11th June

Israel vs Iran: the risk of war

Paul Rogers, 11 June 2010
Iran is at the centre of a global storm: targeted by new sanctions, suspected by Washington, defended by Brazil and Turkey. But the complex diplomacy around its nuclear programme could be ended by decisions made not in the United States but in Israel.
Thursday 3rd June

Israel-Turkey-United States: Gaza’s global moment

Paul Rogers, 3 June 2010
Israel’s assault on a flagship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza has sparked international condemnation. Behind the crisis lie deeper shifts in world politics in which Turkey is playing a key part.
Thursday 27th May

America and the world’s jungle

Paul Rogers, 27 May 2010
An official directive that grants the United States army expanded counterinsurgency powers reveals Washington’s imprisonment in an exhausted vision of security.
Thursday 20th May

A world on the margin

Paul Rogers, 20 May 2010
The diverse social insurgencies in such countries as Thailand, Greece, India and China can also be seen in a common frame, as responses to a global process that produces extreme inequality and exclusion.
Friday 14th May

Washington vs Waziristan: the far enemy

Paul Rogers, 14 May 2010
The new pattern of United States military attacks in the AfPak borderlands is fuelling ever-greater hostility on the ground. The arrest of a presumed Taliban militant in New York is one of its symptoms. The long war is recharging itself.
Sunday 9th May

Britain, let’s talk about security

Paul Rogers, 9 May 2010
An inconclusive general election casts uncertainty over the shape of Britain’s next government. The issue of national security, amid conditions of severe financial constraint, will be high on the incoming administration’s agenda. But the political space for a fresh approach to the country’s defence needs is already narrowing.
Monday 3rd May

Afghanistan: a phantom endgame

Paul Rogers, 3 May 2010
The nature and future of Afghanistan’s war is now bound to international political calculation, not least the United States’s electoral timetable.
Thursday 22nd April

A tale of three cities: Washington, Baghdad, Tehran

Paul Rogers, 22 April 2010
The United States's war in Iraq failed to curb Iranian influence in the region. The war's architects now seek to make Tehran pay for their mistake.
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