Paul Wilkinson

Prior to his appointment as Professor of International Relations at St Andrews in 1989, Paul was Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen 1979-1989. He was visiting Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1997 – 1998 and is Honorary Fellow of University of Wales, Swansea.

His publications include Political Terrorism (1974); Terrorism and the Liberal State (1977/1986); The New Fascists (1981/1983); Contemporary Research on Terrorism (as co-editor, 1987); Aviation Terrorism and Security (as co-editor, 1999) and Terrorism versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response.

He co-authored with Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Yukio Satoh the report to the Trilateral Commission (May 2003) Addressing the New International Terrorism; Prevention, Intervention and Multilateral Co-operation and co-edited a Special Edition of the Terrorism and Political Violence journal (March 2005) with Dr Magnus Ranstorp, on Terrorism and Human Rights.

From 2002 – 2004 Professor Wilkinson directed a research project funded by the ESRC, on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. This project has resulted in a book version of the findings published in June 2007 entitled Homeland Security 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).