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

Trump’s National Security Strategy has put Europe on notice

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

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

It is hard to isolate large adversaries

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

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

Why Zarah Sultana is living in fantasyland

There can be no lasting peace between Hamas and Israel

Let’s defend our own backyard first

We should be pessimistic about the possibility of change