Gwynne Dyer
Notice: To accommodate EKU Homecoming events, the Chautauqua Lecture by Gwynne Dyer will be held in the EKU Center for the Arts.
Gwynne Dyer is an acclaimed Canadian independent journalist, historian and author based in London, England. His most recent book, published in 2015, is titled, Don’t Panic: ISIS, Terror, and Today’s Middle East. A prolific writer and analyst of global politics, Dyer’s other recent books include Crawling from the Wreckage (2011), and Canada in the Great Power Game: 1914-2014 (2015). Dyer’s many other monographs include Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq (2003), Future: Tense (2005), The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, (2007), all of which were number one or number two on the Globe & Mail’s non-fiction best-seller list in his native Canada. Dyer’s 2008 book, Climate Wars, was based on a CBC “Ideas” radio documentary series of the same name (http://gwynnedyer.com/radio/ ), dealing with the frightening geopolitical implications of large-scale climate change. Dyer’s first major publication, War, from 1985, was republished in 2005, having become a classic in the field of the history of armed conflict.
Praise for Gwynne Dyer’s erudition, his style and his analysis is widespread: Dyer writes with a “trenchant tone and clear-eyed, nonpartisan approach” (Toronto Star); Dyer is “piercing and provocative” (Vancouver Sun); “It is his clear-eyed realism, coupled with an apparently encyclopedic knowledge of international affairs, that makes [Dyer’s] commentary so bracing. . . His analysis is pointed and refreshing” (Quill & Quire); and “Compelling reading... for the context it provides in an historically amnesiac time” (Literary Review of Canada).
Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 30 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He served in three navies and held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oxford University before launching his twice-weekly column on international affairs, which is published by over 175 papers in some 45 countries. Many of his opinion pieces can be found through the London Free Press Webpage: http://www.lfpress.com/author/gwynne-dyer.
His first television series, the 7-part documentary, War, was aired in 45 countries in the mid-1980’s. One episode, “The Profession of Arms,” was nominated for an Academy Award. Other documentary works include the 1994 series, The Human Race, and Protection Force, a three-part series on peacekeepers in Bosnia, both of which won Gemini awards. His award-winning radio documentaries include “The Gorbachev Revolution,” a seven-part series based on Dyer’s experiences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in 1987-90, and Millenium, a six-hour series on emerging global culture.
In the United States, Gwynne Dyer’s column appears regularly in the Cincinnati Post, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, Hartford Courant, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Raleigh News & Observer, Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salt Lake Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Toledo Blade, and about twenty other papers. In Canada and the rest of the world, Dyer’s column appears regularly in scores of publications, including the Telegram in St. John’s, the Halifax Daily News, La Presse in Montreal, NOW in Toronto, the Hamilton Spectator, and the Winnipeg Free Press, and the Japan Times, the Korea Times, the Straits Times (Singapore), the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), the Bangkok Post, the New Zealand Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), the Jordan Times, Egypt Today, the Jerusalem Post, the Turkish Daily News, the Moscow Times, Zeitpunkt (Switzerland), Internazionale (Rome), Daily Vision (Uganda), The Star (Nairobi), The Citizen (Johannesburg), the Cape Times the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, and the Buenos Aires Herald.
Sponsored by the Department of History, the Intelligence Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, and the Honors Program
Sources:
http://www.lfpress.com/author/gwynne-dyer https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Gwynne+Dyer&search-alias=books&field-author=Gwynne+Dyer&sort=relevancerank
Published on October 20, 2016