Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. 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 and Why We're Losing the War on Terror. Since October 2001 he has written ORG monthly Briefing Papers on international security and the "war on terror". He is also a regular commentator on global security issues in both the national and international media, and is openDemocracy?s International Security Editor. In the 1960s he worked with the Haslemere Group, an early pressure group on trade and development issues before embraking on an academic career first at Huddersfield and then at Bradford. 

February 10th, 1943 in (Age 81)