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. Sign up below! lselaw.events/event/the-na...

Happy to share this CfP fro one of the best up and coming security studies journals ... take a look. cis-fpn.rs/call-for-pap...

Happy Christmas! Logging off until the new term.

Congratulations to Prof Tom Pegram! New politics professor at @ucl.ac.uk

Today!

Tomorrow! Still some spaces if you book through link below!

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

Feed: "UnHerd" By: Philip Cunliffe on Friday, July 18, 2025

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

Read our latest newsletter! University of Newcastle Book Fair | Alternative Angles: Forests | Fast 5 with Philip Cunliffe | Africa Past and Present with Peter Alegi newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/the-future... Our newsletter is freely available so share it widely!

The more Israel wins militarily, the more it loses politically. Trump is now joining the backlash, writes Philip Cunliffe 👇 buff.ly/jQaMaxt

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. open.spotify.com/show/4NNZ6Xe...

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

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...

🎧 New Books in Intellectual History Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025) (58min) by New Books Network Listen Details #NewBooks #IntellectualHistory #PoliticalScience2025

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

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. @thephilippics.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

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

‘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 🎟️ buff.ly/S2IJtNt

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

"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 www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

Interesting to see how many of my IR students this year seemed to come onto the course instinctive realists and left more liberal ... appreciative of the connection between self-interest and cooperation. I take it as a win. 😅

'Blathering about interests and values while letting foreigners asset-strip British utilities and industries was possible for the last thirty years because we lived in a world of unipolar globalisation' | Philip Cunliffe

Pursuing the national interest today requires remaking the British state itself. Is Kemi Badenoch’s conservative realism up to the task? | Philip Cunliffe

Feed: "UnHerd" By: Philip Cunliffe on Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The national interest has resurfaced in public life. It's welcome, I argue in my latest for @unherd.com

Well done guys, you did it.

What a privilege to be an educator in political science and international relations in times like these.

Final slide of my IR course for this term ... the end of unipolarity

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 With peacekeepers being mooted for Ukraine peace deal, worthwhile thinking about how peace ops / peacekeeping under multipolarity or bipolarity looks different from peacekeeping under unipolarity ...