Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are realism, great power politics and foreign and defence policy.

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He has written five books. His latest book is How to Survive a Hostile World: Power, Politics and the Case for Realism. His book Blunder: Britain's War in Iraq was shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year Prize, 2019. His most recent book is The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump. He also wrote The Global Village Myth: Distance, War and the Limits of Power and Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes.

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He is a contributing editor at The Critic magazine. His work has appeared in journals including International Security, Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, International Affairs, the Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Spectator, Politico, The New Statesman, Unherd, the Australian Financial Review, and others.

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Patrick is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe. He has appeared as an expert witness before the UK’s parliamentary Defence Select Committee, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, and the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

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Born in Canberra and raised in Melbourne, Porter graduated from the University of Melbourne and then obtained his doctorate in Modern European History at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked at the British Defence Academy and the universities of Reading and Exeter.