Patrick Porter

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. sup.org/books/politics… Now available for pre-order: amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Ho…

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…

"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…

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.

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

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…

"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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American politicians and commentators should stop trash-talking Europe and look in the mirror, argues @PatPorter76 thecritic.co.uk/the-warlords-i…

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

“Tell dead men’s families, from Britain to Denmark, about West European free-riding” — @PatPorter76 critiques American hubris thecritic.co.uk/the-warlords-i…

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

A very fine piece from the great and powerful @PatPorter76 thecritic.co.uk/the-warlords-i…

The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake, writes @PatPorter76 for our online subscribers thecritic.co.uk/the-warlords-i…

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…

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/

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…

“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

'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.'

Here is the review! firstthings.com/the-sinew-of-d…

Donald Trump has been achieving the opposite of what he promised, argues @PatPorter76 thecritic.co.uk/trump-the-impr…