global security

International Security Correspondent Paul Rogers provides weekly commentary on the 'war on terror'. His acute commentaries are an indispensable guide to explaining the present conflict's development and mapping the future.

Thursday 4th February

Iraq's shadow over Afghanistan

Paul Rogers, 4 February 2010

The Barack Obama administration’s plans for subduing the Taliban are endangered by continuing insecurity in Iraq

Friday 29th January

Afghanistan: the politics of war

Paul Rogers, 29 January 2010

The American-led effort to map Afghanistan’s future neglects the role of the country’s neighbours – and could yet be derailed by events over Iran.

Thursday 21st January

The SWISH Report (16)

Paul Rogers, 21 January 2010

On the anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as United States president, the al-Qaida movement invites the respected SWISH management consultancy to assess its prospects.

Thursday 14th January

Israel's shadow over Iran

Paul Rogers, 14 January 2010

The combination of Iran's effort to protect its nuclear facilities and Israel's to prevent its rival developing a weapon makes a crisis in 2010 all the more likely.

Friday 8th January

Bush to Obama: a toxic legacy

Paul Rogers, 8 January 2010

A series of intelligence failures that stretch from Afghanistan to the American heartland reveals the depth of the United States’s strategic predicament at the dawn of 2010.

Friday 18th December

Iraq: the path of war

Paul Rogers, 18 December 2009

The persistence of violence in Iraq reopens the question of the impulse of the war unleashed by Washington in 2003 on the Saddam Hussein regime.

Thursday 10th December

After war, security

Paul Rogers, 10 December 2009

The war on terror has been a disaster. But out of its ashes a deeper understanding of global security capable of addressing real 21st-century threats may emerge.

Thursday 8th October

Afghanistan: from insurgency to insurrection

Paul Rogers, 8 October 2009

A change in the Afghan war's character has momentous implications for Washington

Tuesday 6th October

Security in the network-state

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 6 October 2009

States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state's complexity

Friday 2nd October

Iran, America, Israel: the nuclear gamble

Paul Rogers, 2 October 2009

The dispute over Iran’s nuclear plans creates a perilous three-way dynamic that may lead to war

Thursday 24th September

The nuclear-weapons agenda

Paul Rogers, 24 September 2009

The world is embracing nuclear diplomacy anew. Britain is a case-study in an evolving process

Monday 21st September

Rid Europe of ‘tac nukes’

Wayne Merry, 21 September 2009

After dropping the missile defence system in Eastern Europe, remaining American weapons in Europe should come next

Friday 18th September

Afghanistan: limits of military power

Paul Rogers, 18 September 2009

The key to progress in Afghanistan - or just to avoiding disaster - is to see through the "other's" eyes

Friday 11th September

A world in need: the case for sustainable security

Paul Rogers, 11 September 2009

The global crises of violence, inequality and climate make fresh approaches to security essential

Tuesday 8th September

North Caucasus: united we stand, divided we fall!

Sergei Markedonov, 8 September 2009

Responding to oD Russia's recent article by Denis Corboy et al the distinguished Russian commentator Sergei Markedonov disagrees profoundly. Better to pay attention to the threat political Islam poses to our common values and come up with a joint strategy

Friday 4th September