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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 28 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). He is on twitter at: @ProfPRogers

A lecture by Paul Rogers on sustainable security, delivered to the Quaker yearly meeting on 3 August 2011, provides an overview of the analysis that underpins his openDemocracy column. It is available in two parts and can be accessed from here

Articles by Paul Rogers

The harvest of war: from pain to gain

Paul Rogers 28 October 2010
A number of initiatives around the world, for example in Bosnia and Guatemala, seeks to record the details of every victim of violent conflict. The new revelations of civilian deaths in Iraq could advance a project whose wider ambition is to change warfare itself.

Britain's security: towards the dawn

Paul Rogers 21 October 2010

The British government’s new defence strategy gestures towards the real security challenges of the 21st century while remaining locked overall in an outmoded vision. But the seeds of new thinking, beyond and even inside the state, will grow.

Al-Qaida: condition and prospect

Paul Rogers 14 October 2010
A series of developments across greater west Asia offers evidence of al-Qaida’s dispersed reality, continued energy and potential vulnerability.

The AfPak endgame

Paul Rogers 7 October 2010
Behind the escalation of United States cross-border raids into Pakistan and of Taliban attacks on coalition tanker-convoys lie the cold political reality of an unwinnable war.

Ed Miliband’s global moment

Paul Rogers 1 October 2010
The election of a new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party is a rare opportunity to put fresh thinking on global security at the heart of the political agenda.

Afghanistan’s decade of war, and the endgame

Paul Rogers 24 September 2010
The war in Afghanistan is at a critical point as it enters its tenth year – and the view that it is unwinnable can be glimpsed in unexpected places.

Britain’s security future

Paul Rogers 16 September 2010
The severe cuts facing Britain’s armed forces are also an opportunity to embrace the new thinking they and the country need.

Afghanistan: wind of change

Paul Rogers 9 September 2010
The annual report for 2010 of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a leading establishment think-tank, raises the prospect of a shift in western policy in Afghanistan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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