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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.’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. At the age of sixty-three; Paul Rogers has spent his whole life freshwater angling. In childhood, for anything that swam; as an adult he chased the dreams and obsession; to catch the largest fish possible. He stayed unmarried until the age of thirty-nine; up till then he could follow the lonely path that obsession made for him. A selfish lifestyle was rudely interrupted; as he learnt that life means more than spending every hour at the river or lake.
