Paul Cornish is Director of the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London. He has served in the British Army and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He has lectured in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London (Joint Services Command and Staff College) and at the University of Cambridge and was NATO Research Fellow 2000-2002. Dr Cornish has published widely and his principal research interests include the international arms trade, European security and the ethics of the use of armed force.