On losing control

Abstract

In Losing Control. Global Security in the 21st Century (2000), Paul Rogers, a Peace Studies professor at Bradford University, highlights the increasing disparities and unsustainability as a risk to global security. Drawing on events in recent history prior to the 2001 World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks, he had, in a way, predicted that the fight against terrorism would ultimately lead to devastating wars. He urged for a reassessment of Western security paradigms. In 2002, he revisited Losing Control by examining the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including biological warfare, ecological crisis, hypercapitalism, and the rise of poverty. [excerpt]