
Dr Nicholas Kitchen
Academic and research departments
Department of Politics, Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC).About
Biography
I joined Surrey in 2018 from the London School of Economics, where I had been Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the United States Centre, Executive Director of the LSE Diplomacy Commission, and Head of Analysis at LSE IDEAS.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS, and Treasurer and Acting Convenor of the US Foreign Policy Working Group of the British International Studies Association.
University roles and responsibilities
- Director of Undergraduate Programmes
- Impact Lead
ResearchResearch interests
My research focuses on the relationship between power, ideas, and strategy in international relations, with particular interests in the concept and measurement of power, realist theory, and great power competition.
Research interests
My research focuses on the relationship between power, ideas, and strategy in international relations, with particular interests in the concept and measurement of power, realist theory, and great power competition.
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
I welcome supervision enquiries from potential PhD students in the following areas:
- US Foreign Policy
- International Relations Theory
- Neoclassical Realism
- Strategy and Security
- International Intervention
- Great Powers and International Order
Postgraduate research supervision
Ellis Mallet: Reversing Course: Explaining Obama's Rapprochements (2019-)
Panos Vasileiadis: Great Power Decline: A Bumpy Road to Retrenchment (2020-)
Teaching
I teach undergraduate modules in Contemporary International History, International Security, and American Foreign Policy; and postgraduate modules in International Intervention, and Post Conflict Processes.
Publications
Highlights
Kitchen, Nicholas et. al. (2020). 'Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism', International Studies Review.
Kitchen, Nicholas (2020). 'Why American grand strategy has changed', Global Affairs.
Kitchen, Nicholas and Cox, Michael (2019). 'Power, Structural Power, and American Decline', Cambridge Review of International Affairs.