Dan Plesch

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Dan Plesch

Daniel Tibor Plesch (born 15 February 1955) is an academic and media pundit specialising in arms control and international security. He is currently the Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Biography

Plesch was born at Keele in Staffordshire and grew up in London. He studied a BA in History at Nottingham and obtained professional qualifications in social work and public administration from Bristol in 1979 and 1980.[1] He says in the early 1980s he was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and helped organise the Glastonbury festivals.[2]

In 1987 Plesch founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), a research and advocacy group specialising in security and arms control with a transatlantic focus. Plesch directed BASIC from Washington DC until 2001 when he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. In 2003 he became an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Keele.[3] Plesch is known to have worked as a consultant to Kroll Security International.[4] He holds a Masters and a PhD in International Law – the latter from Keele University – although it is not clear when he undertook these courses.[5]

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce describes Plesch as “one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals”.[6] He has written for a wide variety of print media including the Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Washington Times[7] and has regularly provided live political and military analysis of evolving news stories for the BBC, CNN, ITN and other news media.[8]

Publications

The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace
  • Daniel Plesch, The beauty queen's guide to world peace: money, power and mayhem in the twenty-first century (London: Politico's, 2004), (ISBN: 9781842751107; 1842751107)
  • Dan Plesch, Taming globalisation: upgrading democracy for the 21st century (London: Charter88, 2003), (ISBN: 1873311958; 9781873311950)
  • Dan Plesch and E R Oxburgh, Second report on British nuclear weapons safety: a response to the Oxburgh report (London: BASIC, 1992), (ISBN: 1874533016; 9781874533016)
  • Dan Plesch, NATO's new nuclear weapons: Intermediate and Short Range Cruise & Ballistic Missiles and artillery (British American Security Information Council, 1988)
  • Dan Plesch, Preparing for the first use of nuclear weapons in Europe: creating a more useable nuclear force (School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 1987)

Affiliations

Contact information

Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4840
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4839
E-mail: dp27@soas.ac.uk; dan@danplesch.net

References

  1. SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, Staff and Tutors: Dan Plesch
  2. DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008)
  3. DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008)
  4. Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008)
  5. Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008)
  6. Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008)
  7. Associates - Dan Plesch,Foreign Policy Centre (Last Accessed 14th February 2008)
  8. DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008)