ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Paul Cornish
Carrington Chair in International Security
Head of the International Security Programme, Chatham House, London

Dr. Paul Cornish was educated at the University of St. Andrews, the London School of Economics, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the University of Cambridge.  He has served in the British Army and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has taught at the UK Joint Staff College and at the University of Cambridge, and was previously Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London. 

Dr. Cornish’s interests include European security institutions, (NATO and EU), arms control and non-proliferation, counter-terrorism and resilience, and the ethics of the use of armed force. Dr. Cornish has given witness twice at the International Criminal Court for Former Yugoslavia. His recent publications include The Conflict in Iraq, 2003 (Editor, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004), ‘The ethics of ‘effects-based’ warfare: the crowding out of jus in bello?’ in C. Reed and D. Ryall, The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, 2007), The CBRN System: Assessing the Threat of Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons in the United Kingdom (Chatham House, 2007), and The UK Contribution to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, 2002-2006 (Chatham House, 2007).

He is co-editor of U.S.-UK Nuclear Cooperation: An Assessment and Future Prospects (CSIS Washington, July 2008). Dr Cornish is currently researching NATO-EU relations and cyber-security threats and responses in the UK.

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