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'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' - New Internationalist Written in the late 1990s, Losing Control was years, if not decades, ahead of its time, predicting the 9/11 attacks, a seemingly endless war on terror and the relentless increase in revolts from the margins and bitter opposition to wealthy elites. Now, more than two decades later and in an era of pandemics, climate breakdown and potential further military activity in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Paul Rogers has revised and expanded the original analysis, pointing to the 2030s and '40s as the decades that will see a showdown between a bitter, environmentally wrecked and deeply insecure world and a possible world order rooted in justice and peace.

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'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' -- 'New Internationalist' 'Paul Rogers is one of those dangerous people who can change your mind' -- Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, CB, FRAeS, Former Director, Royal United Services Institution for Defence Studies 'A highly respected academic, absolutely committed to grassroots change' -- 'Peace News'

'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' -- 'New Internationalist' 'Paul Rogers is one of those dangerous people who can change your mind' -- Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, CB, FRAeS, Former Director, Royal United Services Institution for Defence Studies 'A highly respected academic, absolutely committed to grassroots change' -- 'Peace News' 'No other book sets out so comprehensively the dangers attached to military security - described as 'unsustainable and self-defeating' - when fundamental rethinking about the real solutions to global insecurity is crucial' -- Bruce Kent, Vice-President of the CND

'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' -- 'New Internationalist' 'Paul Rogers is one of those dangerous people who can change your mind' -- Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, CB, FRAeS, Former Director, Royal United Services Institution for Defence Studies 'A highly respected academic, absolutely committed to grassroots change' -- 'Peace News' 'No other book sets out so comprehensively the dangers attached to military security - described as 'unsustainable and self-defeating' - when fundamental rethinking about the real solutions to global insecurity is crucial' -- Bruce Kent, Vice-President of the CND 'This fourth edition more clearly than ever demonstrates the connections between the neoliberal economy, environmental degradation and the false assumptions of security as a state rather than human-centred problem. This book makes the argument with clarity for a total rethink of how we live together' -- Jenny Pearce, Research Professor at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics 'With a magisterial overview of the last half century, this book offers a prophetic yet ultimately hopeful political and social challenge: to re-think economics, the environment and security for the sake of future generations. A compelling read, it is bold and realistic, principled and pragmatic' -- The Rt Revd Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Leeds

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Paul Rogers is an Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and International Security Advisor to openDemocracy. He is the author of Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century.

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