Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer received his Ph.D. in military and Middle Eastern history from the University of London. He served in the Canadian, American and British navies, and taught military history and war studies at the Canadian Forces College and at the Royal Military Academy. From there, Dyer worked as a freelance journalist, broadcaster and lecturer. His syndicated columns on international affairs appear in a dozen languages in nearly 200 newspapers published in more than 45 countries around the world. He has also made several well-known radio documentaries. In 2010, Dyer was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions as a columnist, documentary producer, broadcaster and author.

Dyer helped create a number of television series that were aired around the world, one episode being nominated for an Academy Award. His books include Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War with Iraq, Future: Tense, The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, and After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. His latest book, Climate Wars, is a Globe and Mail best-selling, groundbreaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. Dyer’s next publication, Fighting Decline, is expected out in the spring of 2011.

• 1. Climate Wars

  His latest book, Climate Wars, is a ground-breaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. Badly, of course, but HOW badly depends on how hot, how soon -- and the game is not yet lost. There are opportunities as well as dangers, and despair is just self-indulgence.

• 2. After Iraq

  Big changes are coming in the Middle East, says Gwynne Dyer. But how big? And how bad? Within a couple of years, the U.S. military domination of the region will be finished. As Iraq descends ever closer to civil war, no one doubts that George W. Bush's Iraq strategy has been an abysmal failure -- just as Gwynne Dyer argued it would be in Afer Iraq, Ignorant Armies and Future: Tense. It has also gravely damaged the ability of the U.S. to get its way in the world.The question now is what will happen not just in Iraq but in the whole Middle East region once American troops are withdrawn.

• 3. Globalization and Nation States

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