Professor Patrick Porter

Professor Patrick Porter

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor of International Security and Strategy

Contact details

Email
p.porter@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Government
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University 麻豆精选. 

His research interests are realism, great power politics and foreign and defense policy.

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.

His work has appeared in journals including International Security, Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, International Affairs, the Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Politico, The Critic, The New Statesman, Unherd, the Australian Financial Review, and many others.

Qualifications

  • DPhil, Modern History, Magdalen College Oxford
  • BA(Hons)/LLB, University of Melbourne

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Porter, P 2025, . Stanford University Press.

Porter, P 2020, . 1st edn, Polity Press. <>

Porter, P 2018, . Oxford University Press, Oxford. <>

Porter, P 2015, . Georgetown University Press. <>

Article

Porter, P 2023, '', Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, ogad014.

Porter, P & Blagden, D 2021, '', Security Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 5-48.

Morefield, J & Porter, P 2020, '', New Statesman, vol. 149, no. 5524, pp. 13-14.

Porter, P 2018, '', International Security, vol. 42, no. 4, 1, pp. 9-46.

Porter, P 2016, '', European Journal of International Security , vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 239-260.