Gwynne Dyer received his Ph.D. in military and Middle Eastern history from the University of London. He served in the Canadian, American and British navies, and taught military history and war studies at the Canadian Forces College and at the Royal Military Academy. From there, Dyer worked as a freelance journalist, broadcaster and lecturer. His syndicated columns on international affairs appear in a dozen languages in nearly 200 newspapers published in more than 45 countries around the world. He has also made several well-known radio documentaries. In 2010, Dyer was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions as a columnist, documentary producer, broadcaster and author.

Dyer helped create a number of television series that were aired around the world, one episode being nominated for an Academy Award. His books include Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War with Iraq, Future: Tense, The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, and After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. His 2008 book, Climate Wars, was a Globe and Mail best-selling, groundbreaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. His most recent book is Crawling from the Wreckage, published last October.

1. Climate Wars

His latest book, Climate Wars, is a ground-breaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. Badly, of course, but HOW badly depends on how hot, how soon -- and the game is not yet lost. There are opportunities as well as dangers, and despair is just self-indulgence.

1. The New Middle East

The good news is that the wrong revolution has lost: Osama bin Laden’s quest to replace the dictatorships and absolute monarchies that used to rule the Arab world with his own fanatical brand of revolutionary Islam had already failed years before he was killed. The even better news is that the right sort of revolutions are winning. Non-violent, secular, democratic revolutions that seek to give Arabs the same freedoms most other people already enjoy. There will be mistakes and even some local defeats and disasters, but we are witnessing a fundamental transformation in a region that has caused the rest of the world much concern over the years. Many non-Arab countries, from Israel to Iran to the United States, will have to reconsider their policies, but this is a Good Thing.

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