Patrick Porter

Professor Patrick Porter is the Chair of Strategic Studies at the University of Exeter, Academic Director of Strategy and Security Institute and Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI. Patrick’s two university press books earned critical acclaim, Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes (2009) was listed on the UK Chief of Defence Staff's Reading List. His latest book, The Global Village Myth: Distance, War and the Limits of Power, is a major critique of assumptions about globalisation and insecurity.