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 30 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.

The most recent of his 26 books are Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Security and the Illusion of Control and the third edition of Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century.

He is a regular radio and TV commentator for international networks and can be found on Twitter as @profprogers.