Dan Plesch

Daniel Tibor Plesch (born 15 February 1955) is an academic and media pundit specialising in arms control and international security. He is currently the Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
==Biography==
Plesch was born at Keele in Staffordshire and grew up in London. He studied a BA in History at Nottingham and obtained professional qualifications in social work and public administration from Bristol in 1979 and 1980.SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, Staff and Tutors: Dan Plesch He says in the early 1980s he was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and helped organise the Glastonbury festivals.DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008)
In 1987 Plesch founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), a research and advocacy group specialising in security and arms control with a transatlantic focus. Plesch directed BASIC from Washington DC until 2001 when he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. In 2003 he became an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Keele.DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008) Plesch is known to have worked as a consultant to Kroll Security International.Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008) He holds a Masters and a PhD in International Law – the latter from Keele University – although it is not clear when he undertook these courses.Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008)
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce describes Plesch as “one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals”.Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), Dan Plesch (accessed 16 May 2008) He has written for a wide variety of print media including the Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Washington Times Associates - Dan Plesch,Foreign Policy Centre (Last Accessed 14th February 2008) and has regularly provided live political and military analysis of evolving news stories for the BBC, CNN, ITN and other news media.DanPlesch.net, Biography (accessed 16 May 2008)
==Publications==
*Daniel Plesch, The beauty queen's guide to world peace: money, power and mayhem in the twenty-first century (London: Politico's, 2004), (ISBN: 9781842751107; 1842751107)
*Dan Plesch, Taming globalisation: upgrading democracy for the 21st century (London: Charter88, 2003), (ISBN: 1873311958; 9781873311950)
*Dan Plesch and E R Oxburgh, Second report on British nuclear weapons safety: a response to the Oxburgh report (London: BASIC, 1992), (ISBN: 1874533016; 9781874533016)
*Dan Plesch, NATO's new nuclear weapons: Intermediate and Short Range Cruise & Ballistic Missiles and artillery (British American Security Information Council, 1988)
*Dan Plesch, Preparing for the first use of nuclear weapons in Europe: creating a more useable nuclear force (School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 1987)
==Affiliations==
*British American Security Information Council (BASIC), founder
*Foreign Policy Centre, Senior Research Associate
*Royal United Services Institute, former Senior Research Fellow
==Contact information==
:Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy
:School of Oriental and African Studies
:Thornhaugh Street
:Russell Square
:London WC1H 0XG
:Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4840
:Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4839
:E-mail: dp27@soas.ac.uk; dan@danplesch.net
==References==
Plesch, Dan