James Rogers (b. 1981) holds a BSc. Econ. (Hons.) in International Politics and Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he was awarded the ‘J. Elizabeth Morris Prize in International Politics’ upon graduation. He also has an M.Phil in Contemporary European Studies from Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
James is now the DRS Scholar at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, where he is analysing the foreign, security and defence policies of the European Union. His Ph.D. research at the Centre of International Studies focuses on the changes in European security culture during the post-Cold War era, and the emergence of a grand strategy at the European level since 1998.
Between September and December 2008, James was a Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, an official agency of the European Union, which provides foreign and defence policy guidance to the European institutions. In March 2009, he addressed the European Parliament’s SubCommittee on Security and Defence on the location of the military installations of the Member States of the European Union, and their potential utility for the functional and geographic expansion of European Security and Defence Policy.
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Selected publications:
- James Rogers, ‘Rulers of the waves, again: Why the EU needs a maritime geostrategy’, Global Europe, 17th February 2010.
- James Rogers, ‘To Rule the Waves: Why a Maritime Geostrategy is Needed to Sustain European Union’, Security Briefing No. 6 (Brussels: Egmont Institute, January 2010).
- James Rogers, ‘From “Civilian Power Europe” to “Global Power Europe”: Explicating the European Union’s Grand Strategy Through the Articulation of Discourse Theory’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4, September 2009, pp. 831-862.
- James Rogers, ‘Why Europa no longers rules the waves’, E!Sharp Magazine, 21st May 2009.
- James Rogers, ‘Primus inter Pares: Britain’s Contribution to the Development of a European Union “Grand Strategy”’, Regional Leaders in the Global Security Arena: Interests, Strategies and Capabilities (Berlin: Deutsche Gesellshaft für Auswartäge Politik, 2009), pp. 109-120.
- James Rogers and Luis Simón, The Military Installations of the Member States of the European Union and their Potential for European Security and Defence Policy (Brussels: European Parliament, 2009).
- James Rogers, ‘From Suez to Shanghai: the EU and Eurasian maritime security’, Occasional Paper 77 (Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2009).
- James Rogers and Luis Simón, ‘Memorandum for the House of Lords’, Review of the 2003 European Security Strategy (London: House of Lords, November 2008), pp. 135-139.
- James Rogers, ‘Diversifying and liberalising to control the Heartlands’, European Voice, 17th April 2008.
- Alex Petersen and James Rogers, ‘Swim together or sink together: A new Atlantic pact’, Europe’s World, Vol. 8, Spring 2008.
- James Rogers and Brendan Simms, ‘Strategic thinking’, Progress Magazine, 1st December 2007.
- James Rogers, ‘The EU Reform Treaty’, International Affairs Forum, 15th September 2007.
- James Rogers, ‘Wanted: A European Security Council’, International Relations and Security Network, 3rd July 2007.
- James Rogers, ‘Europe’s getting boots’, International Relations and Security Network, 22nd June 2007.
- James Rogers and Christopher Swift, ‘Promoting Peaceful Change in Belarus’, The Henry Jackson Society, 20th March 2006.
- See also James’ former weblog: Global Power Europe.
