Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University. He worked originally in the biological and environmental sciences, including lecturing at Imperial College, London, but has worked for the past 35 years on international security. He is a consultant to Oxford Research Group, an independent UK think tank, and also writes a weekly analysis of international security issues for www.opendemocracy.net/. He lectures regularly at the Royal College of Defence Studies and has been an External Examiner for postgraduate programmes at RCDS and the Joint Service Command and Staff College. The most recent of his 26 books is the third edition of Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (Pluto Press 2010) and his new book, Irregular War: Islamic State, Elites and Revolts from the Margins, will be published by I B Tauris in the New Year