Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute

Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership

The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks

Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine

The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised

The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership

Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism

Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front

The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital

Henry Kissinger loved to wield power more than he respected its implications

Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war