Paul Moorcraft
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Paul Leslie Moorcraft (born 1948 in Cardiff, Wales) is the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis in London and a visiting professor at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.
Biography
Personal life
Moorcraft was born in 1948 in
Moorcraft married Susan van den Brink in 1987 on an island situated in
Career
Moorcraft has been the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis since its establishment in 2004. It is an independent non-political organisation dedicated to
In the course of his academic career Moorcraft taught full-time at the
Moorcraft has also worked for the British defence establishment. He is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy,
Moorcraft has also pursued a career as a journalist. 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
Moorcraft is also a
He is the author of a range of books on
He lost some eyesight in one eye as a result of previous war injuries, and in 2009 lost the sight in his good eye after surgery to remove a
Moorcraft takes an active interest in raising awareness of dyscalculia in children.
Criticism
Moorcraft conducted one of the first major interviews with
Moorcraft also supported the war against
In April 2008, Moorcraft's views on
References
- ^ Moorcraft, Paul, Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (Dialogue, London, 2010), p195.
- ^ "-:: Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis ::-". www.cffpa.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Channel 56 Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- memoirs, Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (Dialogue, London, 2010) p195.
- ^ Anchoress of Shere was the runner up in 2003 for the Benjamin Franklin Awards, and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year. It was also named "2002 notable mystery of the year" by the US Publishers Weekly. Publishers Weekly, 1 April 2002, p57.
- ^ "Why the West must exit now", Sunday Express (London), 17 September 2006.
- ^ Church marriage rules
Further reading
- Autobiographical Guns and Poses: Travels with an occasional war correspondent (2001).
- "Inside Saddam's crazy capital", Western Mail, 3 October 2002.
- "A replay of Iraq beckons in Darfur if we send in troops", The Guardian, 6 April 2006.
- "The Mugabe problem", Washington Times, 25 August 2006.
- "Visions of war, dreams of peace in a changing world", Business Day, 9 January 2007.
- 1999 Vauxhall Lecture
- Number blindness (dyscalculia)
- "Why the West must exit now", Sunday Express (London), 17 September 2006.
- Church marriage rules
- Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
- Channel 56
- Sudan Watch
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (Dialogue, London, 2010) p. 195.
- In 2005 he co-authored 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. His Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting (Potomac, Washington, 2008), is co-authored with Philip M Taylor. The Rhodesian War: A Military History, a study of the Rhodesian civil war (with Peter McLaughlin) was also published in 2008 by Pen and Sword books.
- Poisoned Pen Press[permanent dead link], Anchoress of Shere was runner up in 2003 for the Benjamin Franklin Awards, and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year. It was also named "2002 notable mystery of the year" by the US Publishers Weekly. ‘'Publishers Weekly'’, 1 April 2002, . p57.