Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. He also tweets at @PatPorter76

Washington’s foreign policy arises from two impulses often in conflict with each other

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In cricket, as in politics, it is always wrong to dismiss past experience

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It is hard to isolate large adversaries

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The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man

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The idea that the War on Terror was the work of a hardline cabal is too simplistic

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Why Zarah Sultana is living in fantasyland

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There can be no lasting peace between Hamas and Israel

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Let’s defend our own backyard first

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We should be pessimistic about the possibility of change

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Alliances can have value, but they are means, not ends

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