Description
From Gaza and Lebanon to Syria, Sudan and Iran, this conversation examines what happens when states and societies begin to systematically unravel.
Exploring war, sanctions, infrastructural destruction, financial collapse and humanitarian breakdown, the panel will consider the political and human consequences of prolonged instability and institutional erosion.
Bringing together geopolitical analysis with humanitarian and economic perspectives, the discussion asks how modern societies survive under sustained pressure, and what the collapse of civic and economic life reveals about the changing nature of power and conflict in the 21st century.
About the Academic
Professor Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and an Honorary Fellow of the UK Defence Academy. He is a biologist by original training, lecturing at Imperial College and also working in tropical crop research in East Africa. From later lecturing in environmental science, he moved to Bradford in 1979 and has worked primarily on the changing causes of international conflict, especially in relation to political violence. A fourth edition of his book, Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, was published by Pluto Press last July.
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