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Patrick Porter

@PatPorter76

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

Katılım Kasım 2013
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Patrick Porter
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. thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…
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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: cato.org/commentary/war…
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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.
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David Blagden
David Blagden@blagden_david·
* Full credit for the pithy framing above to the always-insightful @PatPorter76
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Matthew Ford
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! hurstpublishers.com/book/global-vi…
Matthew Ford@warmatters

When IR realists/maritime strategists finally realise Iran’s geographical power cannot be overcome by technology…

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Cato Foreign Policy
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: cato.org/commentary/war…
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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. thecritic.co.uk/the-warlords-i…
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Nikolas Gvosdev
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/
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First Things
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
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 firstthings.com/the-sinew-of-d…

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'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.

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