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Opening of @uclrdr.bsky.social risk communication lecture for UCL200 anniversary!

The national interest: politics after globalisation - LSE Law School Events Our panel of three experts will discuss whether there really is such a thing as the national interest, whether it really is back, who decides what it is, and what effects thinking in terms of national...

Still some seats left for my book talk this coming Thursday 5 February @ @lselaw.bsky.social - me talking about my latest book, The National Interest, with @anandmenon.bsky.social and Helen Thompson as respondents.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Regional Security - Special Issue on Energy and Regional Security Dynamics - Centre for International Security CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Regional Security Special Issue on Energy and Regional Security Dynamics (Spring 2027) Guest Editor: Dr Nevena Šekarić Stojanović, Research Fellow, Institute of Internation...

Happy to share this CfP fro one of the best up and coming security studies journals ... take a look.

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Happy Christmas!

Logging off until the new term.

Congratulations to Prof Tom Pegram!

New politics professor at @ucl.ac.uk

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Tomorrow!

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EU trade deal can’t hide Starmer's failures In advance of the UK-EU summit scheduled for 19 May, Britain’s Labour government has indicated that the occasion will be used to reboot its relationship with the EU, marking a “new strategic…

When things are bad at home, British politicians always obfuscate and turn to the EU. Keir Starmer is no different | Philip Cunliffe unherd.com/newsroom/eu-...

The Afghan cover-up will haunt the UK The twenty-year war continues to plague Britain. Photo: Massoud Hossaini/Getty.

‘The UK state is evidently still capable of significant and costly logistical and infrastructural exertions when it comes to causes it deems worthy’ | Philip Cunliffe

The Afghan cover-up will haunt the UK It will accelerate elites’ downfall

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The new Cold War will divide the West J.D. Vance has barracked Europeans over mass immigration and freedom of speech. Photo: Photo by Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images

We are in a new era of geopolitical rivalry, but it’s not the one you think | Philip Cunliffe

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The more Israel wins militarily, the more it loses politically.

Trump is now joining the backlash, writes Philip Cunliffe 👇

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Philip Cunliffe on The National Interest

Was delighted to join @E_IR's 'Thinking Global' podcast to talk about my latest book, The National Interest.

The host @kieranjomeara was not only intellectually generous but also gave me the space and time to develop the arguments.

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Thanks to all those who came to my book talk on the national interest at my former uni - really enjoyable, and wonderfully engaged students.

Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad 21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...

Open letter in support of Prof Michael Ben-Gad, City University London, targeted and harassed by “students” in a protest group, for no other reason than pure anti-semitism - for being an Israeli Jew. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Back at Kent to deliver research paper on distribution of power and provision of peacekeeping ... very useful feedback on extending analysis to other public goods ...

Great panel - touching on possibilities of the mooted 'reassurance force' for Ukraine ...

Opening up of Stockholm workshop on future of international military missions

A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are: The national interest: politics after globalization by Philip Cunliffe Year of the rat: undercover in the British far right by Harry Shukman Digital methods: a short introduction by Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers Politicians manipulating statistics: how they do it and how to oppose them by Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho Mass polarization across time and space by Isaac D. Mehlhaff The precarious migrant worker: the socialization of precarity by Panos Theodoropoulos The new Cold War and the remaking of regions by T.V. Paul and Markus Kornprobst Rethinking analytical sociology by Daniel Little

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Long-observed fact that post-45 leaders were veterans of the world wars; what about IR theorists?

C.P. Kindleberger and Kissinger both served in WWII, Waltz was a veteran of the Korean War, Mearsheimer served in the USAF, any other big theorists with military experience?

Always a pleasure re-reading classic texts in preparing undergrad lectures. Charlie Kindleberger - just brilliant.

Last night at Verdurin, launching Philip Cunliffe's The National Interest.
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I'm looking forward to having Philip Cunliffe back on the Verdurin sofa next week for a conversation on The National Interest.

📅 23 July, 7pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ £10, includes book discount at buff.ly/rr2Hm82

Trump won’t defeat Brics Having beaten a rapid retreat following the opening volley of “Liberation Day” in April, Donald Trump has now made another sally in his global trade war. On Sunday night, he threatened to impose…

‘We have the prospect of a very stoppable force crashing into a very moveable object' | Philip Cunliffe unherd.com/newsroom/tru...

Coming up at Verdurin: The National Interest, with Philip Cunliffe

With peak globalization behind us, a new debate on the meaning of national interests is urgent. “Putting America First” has a ring to it, but what does it mean for Britain to follow its interests?

📅 23 July, 7pm
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Who does the EU youth mobility scheme really benefit? Much of the commentary around Britain’s new “reset” deal with the EU is understandably focused on weighing the distribution of benefits and costs to the two parties involved. The youth mobility…

Britain’s proposed EU youth mobility scheme is a relic of a bygone era. It is costly policy built to appeal to centrist dads | Philip Cunliffe

How Trump Won the Canadian Election The victory of Mark Carney’s Liberal Party in Canada’s election is widely hailed as marking a significant turning point in world politics.

"That a globalist technocrat has embraced the language of assertive nationhood marks perhaps the most significant turning point in our post-global world yet."

Is Carney's Canadian election victory the end of globalism?

@thephilippics.bsky.social for Compact

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