The Director Professor Paul Moorcraft is an international media relations expert specialising in security issues. He was the editor of a range of security and foreign policy magazines, including Defence Review and Defence International. He worked for Time magazine, the BBC and most of the Western TV networks as a freelance producer/war correspondent as well as lecturing at ten major universities in journalism, politics and international relations. He was a Distinguished Radford Visiting Professor in Journalism at Baylor University, Texas. He has worked in 30 war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, often with irregular forces. Most recently he has been working in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine/Israel and Sudan. Dr Moorcraft is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He also worked in Corporate Communications in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. He is a crisis management consultant to such international blue-chip companies as Shell, British Gas, 3M, Standard Bank etc, as well as for various government organisations. He is the author of a wide range of books on military history, politics and crime. Dr Moorcraft is a regular broadcaster and contributor to UK and US newspapers. His most recent books include Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (Pen and Sword, May 2005). An updated version, The New Wars of the West, was published by Casemate in the US in 2006. In 2008 Pen and Sword published The Rhodesian War: A military history, co-authored with Dr Peter McLaughlin; also in 2008, Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting, with Prof. Phil M Taylor (Potomac). Research associates The Centre employs its own staff and freelance researchers who specialise in such areas as crisis management, conflict resolution, military-media relations, energy renewal, defence policy and strategy, Islamic fundamentalism, and Middle Eastern issues.