Paul Rogers (born 10 February 1943) is Emeritus Professor of

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at the

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and Global Security Consultant with

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(ORG). He has worked in the field of international security, arms control and political violence for over 30 years. He lectures at universities and defence colleges in several countries and has written or edited 26 books, including ''Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control'' (Routledge, 2008) and ''Why We're Losing the War on Terror'' (Polity, 2008). Since October 2001 he has written monthly Briefing Papers on international security and the "

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" for ORG. He is also a regular commentator on global security issues in both the national and international media, and is

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’s International Security Editor. In the 1960s he worked with the Haslemere Group, an early pressure group on trade and development issues before embarking on an academic career first at Huddersfield and then at Bradford. He holds a BSc and PhD from

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