Professor Paul Rogers,Emeritus Professor
Information about Professor Paul Rogers at the University of Bradford.
- School of Social Sciences
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences) - Email:
- p.f.rogers@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 234185
Biography
Paul Rogersis Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and an HonoraryFellow of the Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC). He has lectured regularly at senior UKdefence colleges for almost forty years and has been an External Examiner forthe MA programmes at the Royal College of Defence Studies and JSCSC. Paul lectures on changing drivers ofinternational conflict with particular interests in the Middle East andparamilitary violence, and also has a long-term research interest in theinteraction between socioeconomic marginalisation, climate disruption andsecurity.He waseducated at Imperial College and then lectured there, including a two-yearsecondment as a Senior Scientific Office with the East African Community. He joined Peace Studies at Bradford in 1979and has maintained a close connection with the University since then, includingperiods as Head of Department and Chair of Faculty. He has also been Chair of the BritishInternational Studies Association.
Paulhas written/edited 30 books and over 150 papers and book chapters, including LosingControl: 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 TripleParadigm Crisis: Economy, Environment and Security”, will be published in TheJournal of Global Faultlines in 2020. His work has been published in manylanguages, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Polish, Portuguese,Spanish and Catalan.
In 2017 he was invited by SpringerNature to contribute a selection of his writings over the past fifty yearsto their “Pioneers” series which was published in 2019 under the title PaulRogers: A Pioneer in Critical Security Analysis and Public Engagement (SeriesEditor: Professor Hans Guenter Brauch).
Paul is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV networks worldwide, averaging atleast 150 interviews a year for more than thirty years. He also writes a weekly column oninternational affairs for www.opendemocracy.net and a monthly analysis oninternational security issues for www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk.