Dr Paul Cornish
Head, International Security Programme and Carrington Professor of International Security
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Expertise
- International security and defence.
- Arms control and technology export controls.
- European security institutions (NATO and EU).
- Ethics of armed force.
- Post-conflict reconstruction.
- Public resilience and counter-terrorism.
- Nuclear proliferation.
Projects
EU counter-proliferation policy (with SIPRI); international rules project (with St Andrews); private security sector; UK R&D policy; bushmeat trafficking.
Recent Publications
- 'Technology, Strategy and Counterterrorism', International Affairs, 86/4, July 2010
- 'Arms Control Tomorrow: the Challenge of Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century' in R Niblett (ed) America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership, Wiley-Blackwell/Chatham House, 2010
- 'Breaking the Mould: the United Kingdom Strategic Defence Review 2010', with Andrew Dorman, International Affairs, 86/2, March 2010
- 'The Defence Review: Affordability Must be the Cart, Strategy the Horse', Parliamentary Brief/Expert Comment, January 2010
- 'NATO's New Strategic Policy: Going Nuclear', The World Today, December 2009
- 'National Defence in the Age of Austerity', with Andrew Dorman, International Affairs, 85/4, 2009
- Cyberspace and the National Security of the UK: Threats and Responses, with Rex Hughes and David Livingstone, Chatham House Report, March 2009
- 'Blair's Wars and Brown's Budgets: From Strategic Defence Review to Strategic Decay in Less Than a Decade', International Affairs, 85/2, July 2009
- 'The United States and Counterinsurgency: 'Political First, Political Last, Political Always' International Affairs, 85/1, March 2009
- 'International Arms Trade Treaty: Gun Control', The World Today, October 2008
- US-UK Nuclear Cooperation: An Assessment and Future Prospects, ed with J Mackby, CSIS, 2008
- The CBRN System: Assessing the Threat of Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons in the UK, Chatham House Report, February 2007
- The UK Contribution to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2002-06, Chatham House Report, January 2007
- EU and NATO: Co-operation or Competition?, Chatham House Report, October 2006
- 'Civil Defence and Public Resilience: the Homeland Security of the United Kingdom', in K. von Hippel (ed.), Europe Confronts Terror, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- 'Learning New Lessons: The British Army and the Strategic Debate, 1945-50', in H. Strachan (ed.), The British Army and the Lessons of War, Frank Cass, 2005
- 'NATO: the practice and politics of transformation', International Affairs, 80/1, January 2004
- [Editor] 'Conflict in Iraq, 2003', Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Experience
| 2002-2005 |
Director, Centre for Defence Studies |
| 1998-2002 |
Lecturer, University of Cambridge |
| 1997-1998 |
Lecturer, Joint Staff College |
| 1996-1997 |
Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge |
| 1993-1996 |
Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House |
| 1991-1993 |
Arms Control Analyst, UK Foreign Office |
| 1989-1991 |
PhD research, University of Cambridge |
| 1983-1989 |
British Army Officer, Royal Tank Regiment |
Broadcast Experience
Extensive - UK and international
Languages
French and German
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