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Dan Plesch
Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
Dan Plesch is the author of Human Rights After Hitler which was reported on NPR's All Things Considered and in the Guardian, Independent, Chicago Tribune amongst others. His previous publications include: America Hitler and the UN, Wartime Origins and the future UN (with Prof.Weiss) and the Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN and on Disarmament. See www.scrapweapons.com www.unwcc.org .
Dr Plesch read history at Nottingham and his PhD from Keel. He worked for non-governmental organisations focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1986 he founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and directed it from Washington DC until 2001, when he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London.
Academic posts since 1988 include Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University.
Outside academia, he has acted as consultant and advisor to the UK and US governments, the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Kroll Security International, Oxfam, the Foreign Policy Centre and Greenpeace. He was the independent advisor to the UK government's department of constitutional affairs on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.
He gave the keynote address to the official conference on the London bombings of 7/7/05, and was invited to give a plenary address to the World Congress on Renewable Energy in 2006. Contributions to newspapers, include the New York Times, Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian and the New Statesman.
Could the US win World War III without using nuclear weapons?
Apr 20, 2018 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the last few years, as the US, Russia and China test each others patience and strategic focus, speculation about the chances of another world war has hit a new high. But many of the people seriously engaged in this...
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