Patrick Porter
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England, United Kingdom - University of Reading
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Patrick Porter
Patrick Porter
BIO
Dr Patrick Porter is Reader in Strategic Studies at the University of Reading. Originally from Australia, Patrick graduated from the University of Melbourne. He then completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford. His research interests are diplomatic and strategic history, US and UK grand strategy, the history of geopolitical and strategic thought, and the relationship between war and Orientalism.
Patrick's first book was published in 2009 by Columbia University Press and Hurst, Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes. He has published in International Affairs, War in History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, War and Society, Historical Research, Security Dialogue, Parameters, the RUSI Journal, the Journal of Religious History and Peace Review, and has written op-eds for Le Monde Diplomatique and the Guardian.
Patrick is a fellow of the UK Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Forum.
PUBLICATIONS
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Books: - Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes (Columbia University Press/Hurst, 2009)
Articles:
"Fingers Crossed: The Dilemmas of Nuclear Disarmament", Literary Review (forthcoming)
"The UK Does Not Understand Strategy", Infinity Journal, IJ Exclusives, April 2011
“Why Britain doesn’t do Grand Strategy,” RUSI Journal 155:4 (August/September 2010), 6-12
“Another Such Victory: Iraq and American Grand Strategy,” Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (July 2010), 218-23
“Paper Bullets: American Psywar in the Pacific, 1944-1945,” War in History 17:4 (2010), 1-33
“Hooked on Security: Keep NATO, but curb its appetite,” The World Today 66:10 (November 2010):12-14
“The Maps are Too Small: Geography, Strategy and the National Interest,” The World Today 66:5 (May 2010): 4-6
“Last Charge of the Knights: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Special Relationship,” International Affairs 86:2 (March 2010): 355-75
Patrick Porter and Alex Watson, “Bereaved and Aggrieved: Combat Motivation and the Ideology of Sacrifice in the First World War,” Historical Research 83:219 (2010): 146-64
“Long Wars and Long Telegrams: Containing Al Qaeda,” International Affairs 85:2 (March 2009): 285-305
“Culture Wars in Afghanistan: Guerrillas of the Information Age rewrite the Rules,” Le Monde Diplomatique (November 2009)
“Military Orientalism? British Observers of the Japanese Way of War, 1904-1910,” War & Society 26:1 (2007): 1-27
“Good Anthropology, Bad History: the Cultural Turn in Studying War,” Parameters 37:2 (2007): 45-58
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