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:Dr Gwyn Prins was for 20 years a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His earliest research was in African history and anthropology. He was later Founder and Director of the [[Global Security Programme]] at the University of Cambridge (1989-97), and Senior Research Fellow at the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]], London (1997-2000). He is now the Professorial Research Fellow at the [[European Institute]], London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK), the first Visiting Senior Fellow at the [[Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the Ministry of Defence]] (Farnborough, UK) and the Senior Fellow in the [[Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of NATO]] (Brussels, Belgium). He is a UK member of the [[P-5 study group]] on improving the operations of the UN Security Council. Recent writings include European Horizons of Diplomatic/Military Operations (1999) and Coalition Aspects of Operations (forthcoming), and edited books on Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations (2000), and (with Hylke Tromp) The Future of War (2000). He is currently working on questions of European security capacity and the command of armed forces. <ref> Moynihan Institute [http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/PersonDetail.asp?personID=235 Personal Information], accessed 14 February 2008<ref> | :Dr Gwyn Prins was for 20 years a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His earliest research was in African history and anthropology. He was later Founder and Director of the [[Global Security Programme]] at the University of Cambridge (1989-97), and Senior Research Fellow at the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]], London (1997-2000). He is now the Professorial Research Fellow at the [[European Institute]], London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK), the first Visiting Senior Fellow at the [[Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the Ministry of Defence]] (Farnborough, UK) and the Senior Fellow in the [[Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of NATO]] (Brussels, Belgium). He is a UK member of the [[P-5 study group]] on improving the operations of the UN Security Council. Recent writings include European Horizons of Diplomatic/Military Operations (1999) and Coalition Aspects of Operations (forthcoming), and edited books on Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations (2000), and (with Hylke Tromp) The Future of War (2000). He is currently working on questions of European security capacity and the command of armed forces. <ref> Moynihan Institute [http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/PersonDetail.asp?personID=235 Personal Information], accessed 14 February 2008<ref> | ||
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:argues that the risks run during the cold war remain after the conflict itself has ended. There is a physical legacy of nuclear waste and unsecured weapons and weapons materials, of materials and techniques related to other weapons of mass destruction and of pollution and environmental damage. There is also a psychological and political legacy of supposedly realistic thinking about security that constricts the future. Such thinking needs not so much to be discarded, since it still prepares us for some problems, but absorbed into a larger vision of the good future which Prins finds in Immanuel Kant's vision of perpetual peace. | :argues that the risks run during the cold war remain after the conflict itself has ended. There is a physical legacy of nuclear waste and unsecured weapons and weapons materials, of materials and techniques related to other weapons of mass destruction and of pollution and environmental damage. There is also a psychological and political legacy of supposedly realistic thinking about security that constricts the future. Such thinking needs not so much to be discarded, since it still prepares us for some problems, but absorbed into a larger vision of the good future which Prins finds in Immanuel Kant's vision of perpetual peace. | ||
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Gwyn Prins, described as "the adventurous thinker on international security" [1] is the director of the Mackinder Centre for Long Wave Events at the London School of Economics. He is fluent in French and also speaks Dutch. [2]
According to the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs:
- Dr Gwyn Prins was for 20 years a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His earliest research was in African history and anthropology. He was later Founder and Director of the Global Security Programme at the University of Cambridge (1989-97), and Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London (1997-2000). He is now the Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK), the first Visiting Senior Fellow at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the Ministry of Defence (Farnborough, UK) and the Senior Fellow in the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of NATO (Brussels, Belgium). He is a UK member of the P-5 study group on improving the operations of the UN Security Council. Recent writings include European Horizons of Diplomatic/Military Operations (1999) and Coalition Aspects of Operations (forthcoming), and edited books on Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations (2000), and (with Hylke Tromp) The Future of War (2000). He is currently working on questions of European security capacity and the command of armed forces. Cite error: Closing
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- ↑ Martin Woollacott The future need not be as bleak as it was The Guardian, Friday September 13 2002 Accessed 14 February 2008
- ↑ LSE Experts Professor Gwyn Prins, accessed 14 February 2008
- ↑ website [url title], accessed
