Paul Wilkinson

Paul Wilkinson is Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the St Andrews University Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. He has become a familiar presence as a commentator in the mainstream British media in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.you." [1]

Quote from Paul "Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you." [2]

Paul Wilkinson is Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the University's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. During the 1997-8 academic year he was a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. After six years service as a regular RAF officer he started his academic career at the University of Wales, Cardiff, as Assistant Lecturer in Politics, in 1966. He became Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Politics at Cardiff before being appointed to the first Chair in International Relations at the Aberdeen University of 1979. In 1989 he was appointed to the first Chair in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He has been joint Editor of the academic journal, Terrorism and Political Violence, since its foundation in 1989.

"In late 1986, he founded the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism, a corporate-funded ‘charity’ that shared an office and telephone number with the right-wing propaganda group Aims of Industry. The Foundation’s co-founder was Michael Ivens, Director of Aims of Industry, who was best known for his anti-trades union activities. " [3]

• Winner of 1982 Scottish Free Enterprise Award - from Aims of Industry

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

His publications include Political Terrorism, Terrorism and the Liberal State, The New Fascists and Lessons of Lockerbie. He is author of the research report for Lord Lloyd's Inquiry into Legislations Against Terrorism, published as volume two of the Inquiry report (Cmd 3420) in October 1996. His new book, Terrorism and Liberal Democracy published by Macmillan in 1999, and his co-editor, with Brian Jenkins, of Aviation Terrorism and Security, a multi-authored volume due to be published by Frank Cass on the tenth anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing.

[4] Paul Wilkinson is past director of the Research Institute for the study of conflict and Terrorism, he is now at the centre for study of terrorism and political violence at the university of St Andrews Paul Wilkinson is Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the University's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. During the 1997-8 academic year he was a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. After six years service as a regular RAF officer he started his academic career at the University of Wales, Cardiff, as Assistant Lecturer in Politics, in 1966. He became Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Politics at Cardiff before being appointed to the first Chair in International Relations at the Aberdeen University of 1979. In 1989 he was appointed to the first Chair in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He has been joint Editor of the academic journal, Terrorism and Political Violence, since its foundation in 1989. [5] He is co-editor of the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence, and is currently director of a research project funded by the ESRC, on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. He served as Adviser to Lord Lloyd of Berwick's Inquiry into Legislation Against Terrorism, and authored vol. two, the Research Report for the Inquiry (1996). [6] Less than a year after the catastrophic events of September 11 2001, the University of St Andrews is to embark on new research into the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. The study, aimed at exploring the internal response to the events of September 11 and their aftermath, concentrating on the management of terrorist attacks in the UK, is funded by a £250,000 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The timely research, which will start in August 2002, will be led by Professor Paul Wilkinson, Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St Andrews, working in conjunction with experts at the University of Southampton, the Potomac Institute, USA and specialist consultants in fields ranging from criminology to disaster management. Professor Wilkinson believes wide- ranging expertise is essential due to the broad scope of the research. [7]

• Advisory Council, Speakers' Corner Trust
• Editorial Board, Terrorism and Political Violence
• Cochair (2009), Praeger Security International

Resources and articles

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• Advised Lord Lloyd of Berwick