Patrick Porter

Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Contributing editor, @TheCriticMag. @RUSI_org. @CatoFP. The Case for Realism, Stanford UP. Repped by Leigh Bureau. 🇦🇺🇬🇧

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

My book, "How to Survive a Hostile World: Power, Politics and The Case for Realism" w/ @stanfordpress is out in October. Defending the tradition in a time of war, climate crisis & economic dislocation.
https://t.co/hA0LJAD68f
Now available for pre-order:
https://t.co/PGNCzOYDNw

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

I joined my colleague Adam Quinn to talk about the Iran war, its roots, conduct and the difficulty of its termination. Have a listen!

[Adam Quinn @adamjamesquinn]

Back with one more spring-run episode of @PolWorldView! 'Trump's Iran Fiasco'🎙️ This time @PatPorter76 serves us trenchant analysis of why this war has been a botch job strategically from the outset, and where we go from here. 🇮🇷🇺🇸

👇Audio links under original post👇

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

My piece for @TheCriticMag. As our era reveals, an anarchic world won't be bound by disinterested rules. Equally, the nihilistic embrace of power without limit is foolish & dangerous. Neither laws nor self-aggrandisement are a substitute for prudence. https://t.co/BWVCsKqoLK

[Cato Foreign Policy @CatoFP]

"No matter how strongly Washington demands it, its transatlantic allies reserve the right not to participate in hubristic, self-defeating military campaigns," argues @CatoFP's @PatPorter76 in his latest article in @TheCriticMag. "The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake."

Read it here:
https://t.co/XFInupjQuX

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

Anzac Day. July 1918, Australian Lt Russell Colman was ordered to mount a raid on a German trench to relieve the battalion of a bloody assault. He "chose reliable men", one my grandfather, veteran Sergeant Richard Carter. Close quarter combat gave him nightmares ever since. RIP.

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

* Full credit for the pithy framing above to the always-insightful @PatPorter76

[Matthew Ford @warmatters]

I’m a generous soul. So when Patrick Porter writes an email to me, pointing out that I’m misrepresenting realists then I’d like to say this is X & sometimes it is just for fun.

That aside, let me correct myself. Realism does take into account geography.

I’ve read Patrick’s book on Distance, War & the Limits of Power (see link). And very good it is too. It also happens to be published by @HurstPublishers so I am more than happy to give it a shout out!

https://t.co/uY9Hw5FXHe

[Cato Foreign Policy @CatoFP]

"No matter how strongly Washington demands it, its transatlantic allies reserve the right not to participate in hubristic, self-defeating military campaigns," argues @CatoFP's @PatPorter76 in his latest article in @TheCriticMag. "The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake."

Read it here:
https://t.co/XFInupjQuX

[Graham Stewart @Critic_GStewart]

Standby for May's @TheCriticMag featuring @skulthorp @HCH_Hill @ShipleyWrites @HJoyceGender @DavidGHFrost @CliveAslet @PatPorter76 @DanDePetris @jo_bartosch @TrooperSnooks @ChountisFabbri @Clarissa_Hard_ @sarahditum @DrDominicGreen @NLebrecht
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[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

American politicians and commentators should stop trash-talking Europe and look in the mirror, argues @PatPorter76
https://t.co/mFqTzLxJIV

[Christian Tripodi @72spare_ribs]

@TheCriticMag @PatPorter76 Excellent piece, mate. One of your best so far for The Critic.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“Tell dead men’s families, from Britain to Denmark, about West European free-riding” — @PatPorter76 critiques American hubris
https://t.co/mFqTzLxbTn

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

@BDSixsmith @TheCriticMag @PatPorter76 Superb stuff. Bolder than many a politician patriot

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

A very fine piece from the great and powerful @PatPorter76
https://t.co/s1wFE13B9w

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake, writes @PatPorter76 for our online subscribers
https://t.co/mFqTzLxJIV

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

My piece in @TheCriticMag, "The Warlords' Insolence." Lashing out at Europe for an ill-judged military adventure will compound the war's harm. Know-nothings should learn NATO is about defending Nth Atlantic, & so-called "free riders" bled in Afghanistan.
https://t.co/sBPetbIjwY

[Nikolas Gvosdev @FPRI_Orbis]

Key line from @PatPorter76 review of @AWessMitchell's new book: "#Diplomacy at its heart is the furthering of the national interest by means of negotiated compromise, conducted to rearrange power in space and time, with the central aim of concentrating strength ... 1/

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

The Sinew of Diplomacy
A review of A. Wess Mitchell's Great Power Diplomacy:
The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger
by Patrick Porter @PatPorter76
https://t.co/calX5YinC9

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“Great Power Diplomacy is a poignant work. It delivers a precise and needed message: Diplomacy at its heart is the furthering of the national interest by means of negotiated compromise, conducted to rearrange power in space and time, with the central aim of concentrating strength and avoiding trials that exceed what the state can bear.” @PatPorter76

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

'In Mitchell’s hands, and thanks in part to a taut, unsentimental prose style redolent of Niccolò ­Machiavelli, the very word “diplomacy” has, by the book’s end, taken on a tough and cold-eyed aspect...history is not a collection of pat lessons" but "a solvent to hubris.'

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

I've reviewed A. Wess Mitchell's formidable book for @firstthingsmag, out in April. He calls for a rediscovery of diplomacy's core, not superficially as "comms" or as handmaiden to military force, but as art of arranging power in space & time, to concentrate it & limit threats.

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

Here is the review!
https://t.co/FCCQQZ2B6w

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

I've reviewed A. Wess Mitchell's formidable book for @firstthingsmag, out in April. He calls for a rediscovery of diplomacy's core, not superficially as "comms" or as handmaiden to military force, but as art of arranging power in space & time, to concentrate it & limit threats.