Dr Nicholas Michelsen is Reader in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He wrote his PhD on continental philosophy, focussing on Gilles Deleuze. He is the author of Politics and Suicide: The Philosophy of Political Self Destruction (Routledge 2015), and Pessimism in International Relations: Provocations Possibilities, Politics, with Tim Stevens (Palgrave 2019). His recent work has looked at Strategic Communications, the history of international thought, the purpose of scholarship, and the reactionary internationalism of the New Right. He has two forthcoming books; Global Nationalism: Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the 21st Century (with Pablo De Orellana), and Unmapping the 21st Century: Between Networks and the State (with Neville Bolt).