Dr Nicholas Kitchen

Nicholas Kitchen is Research Fellow at IDEAS, the centre for International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy at the London School of Economics, where he is Editor in Chief of IDEAS Reports. He holds Visiting Lecturer positions at City University, Birkbeck College and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Dr Kitchen earned his PhD in International Relations from the LSE in 2009. Supervised by Professor Michael Cox, his doctoral thesis focused on American grand strategy debates in the 1990s. His current research interests include classical and neoclassical realism, US Foreign Policy, emerging powers and power transition theory, and the role of ideas in international relations. He holds an MRes in International Relations from Keele University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
Recent Publications
“The Obama doctrine- détente or decline.” European political science, 10 (1). pp. 27-35
"Just Another Liberal War? Western Interventionism and the Iraq War" in Acharya and Katsumata (ed.) Beyond Iraq: the Future of World Order, World Scientific (2010) (with Michael Cox)
"Systemic Pressures and Domestic Ideas: A Neoclassical Realist Model of Grand Strategy Formation", Review of International Studies, 36 no. 1 (2010), 117-143
"Illusions of Empire and the Spectre of Decline" in Parmar, Ledwidge and Miller (ed.) New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Routledge, 2009 (with Michael Cox)