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.
[...] The Identity and Security panel was decent with a bunch of experts pushing systems which had a more friendly face than things I’ve seen in the past. There was a emphases that we’re skating on thin ice and it won’t be long before However nothing will beat TedXBradford where the air was literally sucked out of the room by the last speaker – Paul Rogers. [...]
[...] Been wondering what happened to the video of Paul Rogers at TedXBradford. [...]
Wonder if the doomladen atmonsphere was accentuated by the appaling lighting in the room- a glib point perhaps but the audience is rather more illuminated than the speaker.
I don’t think he grapples properly with the issues of UCAV. Pilots are pilots, he needs to get that.
Asymetricism is bidirectional- given. just as we project power across the globe inthe form of control signals to drones, so fundamentalist terrorism can transmit ideas of self destructive violence. Quite how that has a specific impact on economics above and beyond any previous model of colonial military control is un answered by Professor Rogers.
But he is overall a good speaker.