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James Patton Rogers is a war historian, broadcaster, and policy adviser at Cornell University. An expert on drone technologies, weaponry, and the history of war, James is the Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute and advises the UN Security Council and NATO on the global proliferation of high-tech weapons systems. 

ABOUT

ABOUT

James Patton Rogers is the Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University.

 

An expert on drones, disruptive technologies, and the history of weaponry and war, he is currently the NATO Country Director of the Full Spectrum Drone Warfare project, supported by NATO SPS.

 

James is also an experienced policy adviser, having advised the United Nations Security Council, UNOCT and UNCTC. He is currently an adviser to the UK Parliament, EU Commission, and an MoD Defense Opinion Leader. 

James completed his PhD on the history of precision warfare at the University of Hull (UK) and has previously been a fellow of Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of Oxford. In 2022, James was a Visiting Scholar of the USAF Air Command and Staff College (AFB Maxwell, Alabama).

 

In addition to his academic and policy work, James prioritizes public impact and dissemination. He regularly writes for the Washington Post and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and he hosts the Warfare podcast with over 640,000 monthly listens in 180+ countries (12+ million all time listens). James has worked as a TV presenter, subject matter expert, and historical advisor for BBC Horizon, PBS, History Channel, History Hit and Netflix.

 

James is the co-founder and co- convenor of BISA War Studies, the War Studies section of the British International Studies Association. His research has been featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist, CNN, Reuters, Rolling Stone, ABC News, NPR, Forbes, China Daily, BBC, Wired, and Newsweek (amongst others).

James' new book, Precision: A History of American Warfare, is published by Manchester University Press, 2023. 

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH SPECIALTIES
  • Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute (2023-)

  • Associate Professor in War Studies, Center for War Studies and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, SDU, Denmark. (2021/23)

  • Assistant Professor in War Studies, Center for War Studies and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, SDU, Denmark (2018-2021)

  • Associate Fellow, LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics (2020/23)

  • Visiting Research Scholar, USAF Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Maxwell AFB. (2022)

  • SCANCOR Visiting Research Fellow, Stanford University (2019)

  • Geopolitics Spotlight Fellow, IAS, Loughborough University (2021- 2022).

  • Visiting Research Fellow, ISS, Yale University (2018/19)

  • Associate Lecturer in International Politics, University of York (2015/18)

  • Visiting Research Fellow, RAI, University of Oxford, (2017)

  • Tutor in International Relations, University of Hull, (2013-2015)

  • Disruptive and Emerging Technologies

  • Drone Warfare

  • History of Warfare and Weaponry 

  • Strategy

  • International Security Policy

  • International Relations

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