Philip Cunliffe

Associate Professor in International Relations at University College London

Philip Cunliffe is an Associate Professor in International Relations at University College London and a prominent scholar in the fields of international order, sovereignty, and political realism. He is the author of several influential works, including The National Interest: Politics After Globalization (2025), which examines the return of the nation-state in the post-globalist era. His research focuses on the structural reconfiguration of global power, the failures of liberal interventionism, and the democratic potential of sovereign statecraft. He is a regular contributor to major intellectual platforms and co-founder of the Bungacast podcast.