Paul Rogers is professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy's international security adviser, 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 latest book is 'Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins' (IB Tauris, 2016), which follows '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, delivered to the Food Systems Academy in late 2014, provides an overview of the analysis that underpins his openDemocracy column. The lecture - 'The crucial century, 1945-2045: transforming food systems in a global context' - focuses on the central place of food systems in human security worldwide. Paul argues that food is the pivot of humanity's next great transition. It can be accessed here
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Published in: HomeIt will take more than Donald Trump to make Iran submitThe Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
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Published in: Home‘Defeated’ ISIS has set up a new “jihadist proto-state” in West AfricaWhere people have few life chances and little help from the government, the militants’ promise of order and basic...
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Published in: HomeThe key to global security? It’s not just about securityIn his 900th column for openDemocracy, Paul Rogers shows how economics and climate demand a new approach to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDo the Tories care about climate breakdown? The next two months will reveal allIn 2015 the Cameron government scrapped vital laws and policies to tackle climate change. May could reverse these...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka, and the lessons still not learned in the failed “war on terror”Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite...
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Published in: HomeWe already know who will win the war in Libya – western arms dealersThey armed Gadaffi and the forces that ousted him alike – now they’re repeating that profitable trick.