Paul Rogers
Emeritus Professor
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Biography
Paul Rogers
is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and an Honorary
Fellow of the Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC). He has lectured regularly at senior UK
defence colleges for almost forty years and has been an External Examiner for
the MA programmes at the Royal College of Defence Studies and JSCSC. Paul lectures on changing drivers of
international conflict with particular interests in the Middle East and
paramilitary violence, and also has a long-term research interest in the
interaction between socioeconomic marginalisation, climate disruption and
security.
He was
educated at Imperial College and then lectured there, including a two-year
secondment as a Senior Scientific Office with the East African Community. He joined Peace Studies at Bradford in 1979
and has maintained a close connection with the University since then, including
periods as Head of Department and Chair of Faculty. He has also been Chair of the British
International Studies Association.
Paul
has written/edited 30 books and over 150 papers and book chapters, including Losing
Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (London: Pluto,
2010) and Irregular War: New Threats from the Margins (London:
Bloomsbury/I B Tauris, 2017). His most recent publication, “The Triple
Paradigm Crisis: Economy, Environment and Security”, will be published in The
Journal of Global Faultlines in 2020.
His work has been published in many
languages, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Polish, Portuguese,
Spanish and Catalan.
In 2017 he was invited by Springer
Nature to contribute a selection of his writings over the past fifty years
to their “Pioneers” series which was published in 2019 under the title Paul
Rogers: A Pioneer in Critical Security Analysis and Public Engagement (Series
Editor: Professor Hans Guenter Brauch).
Paul is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV networks worldwide, averaging at
least 150 interviews a year for more than thirty years. He also writes a weekly column on
international affairs for www.opendemocracy.net and a monthly analysis on
international security issues for www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk.