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The Philippics

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Associate Professor of International Relations at UCL. Author / co-author / editor of 8 books. Co-founder @bungacast

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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Prof Terry Cannon kicks off our @uclrdr.bsky.social research seminar series on whether or not there has been progress in DRR...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
UCL looking gorgeous in spring sunshine!
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Opening of @uclrdr.bsky.social risk communication lecture for UCL200 anniversary!
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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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...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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...
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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...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Happy Christmas! Logging off until the new term.
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations to Prof Tom Pegram! New politics professor at @ucl.ac.uk
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Today!
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tomorrow! Still some spaces if you book through link below!
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 30/04/2025
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-...
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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…
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 18/07/2025
‘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
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The Afghan cover-up will haunt the UK
The twenty-year war continues to plague Britain. Photo: Massoud Hossaini/Getty.
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Feed: "UnHerd" By: Philip Cunliffe on Friday, July 18, 2025
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The Afghan cover-up will haunt the UK
It will accelerate elites’ downfall
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 13/08/2025
We are in a new era of geopolitical rivalry, but it’s not the one you think | Philip Cunliffe
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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
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New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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!
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The Future of African Studies
“When done well, scholarly podcasting can engage with a wider audience, enhance visibility, enrich promotion and tenure portfolios, strengthen professional networking, and foster a sense of community....
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 02/08/2025
The more Israel wins militarily, the more it loses politically. Trump is now joining the backlash, writes Philip Cunliffe 👇 buff.ly/jQaMaxt
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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Philip Cunliffe on The National Interest
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Thanks to all those who came to my book talk on the national interest at my former uni - really enjoyable, and wonderfully engaged students.
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Lindsey Arielle Davidson @hebraicaveritas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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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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...
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podparley.bsky.social @podparley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
🎧 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
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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 ...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Great panel - touching on possibilities of the mooted 'reassurance force' for Ukraine ...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Opening up of Stockholm workshop on future of international military missions
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
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
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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?
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Always a pleasure re-reading classic texts in preparing undergrad lectures. Charlie Kindleberger - just brilliant.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 24/07/2025
Last night at Verdurin, launching Philip Cunliffe's The National Interest. @thephilippics.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 15/07/2025
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
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 09/07/2025
‘We have the prospect of a very stoppable force crashing into a very moveable object' | Philip Cunliffe unherd.com/newsroom/tru...
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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…
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 12/06/2025
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
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 20/05/2025
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
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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…
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Ashley Frawley @ashleyafrawley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"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-...
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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.
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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. 😅
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 15/04/2025
'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
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A British revival needs more than steel
If steel is so important, then why was the Port Talbot steelworks allowed to close? Photo by GEOFF CADDICK/AFP via Getty Images)
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 28/02/2025
Pursuing the national interest today requires remaking the British state itself. Is Kemi Badenoch’s conservative realism up to the task? | Philip Cunliffe
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Kemi Badenoch is turning realism into a culture war
One of the most dramatic effects of Donald Trump’s second administration is that it has thrust the doctrine of realism to the forefront of public debate. A storied theoretical tradition rooted in the…
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Feed: "UnHerd" By: Philip Cunliffe on Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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A British revival needs more than steel
Globalisation has mauled our country
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The national interest has resurfaced in public life. It's welcome, I argue in my latest for @unherd.com
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What a privilege to be an educator in political science and international relations in times like these.
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Final slide of my IR course for this term ... the end of unipolarity
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨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 ...
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The Philippics @thephilippics.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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