Paul Kennedy

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Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, DPhil, FBA (born 1945), is a British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards and Honours 3 Bibliography 4 References

Biography

Kennedy was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, and attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle. Subsequently, he graduated with first class honours in history from University of Newcastle and obtained his doctorate from St. Antony's College, Oxford. He was a member of the History Department at the University of East Anglia between 1970 and 1983. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2007-8, Kennedy was the Phillipe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.

He is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of British history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also the Director of International Security Studies and along with John Lewis Gaddis and Charles Hill, teaches the Studies in Grand Strategy course there.

His most famous book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, has been translated into 23 languages and assesses the interaction between economics and strategy over the past five centuries. The book was incredibly well received by fellow historians, with A.J.P. Taylor labelling it "An encyclopaedia in itself" and Sir Michael Howard crediting it as "a deeply humane book in the very best sense of the word".^[1][2]

His most recent book is The Parliament of Man, in which he contemplates the past and future of the United Nations.

He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. His monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services.^[3]

Awards and Honours

He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2001. The National Maritime Museum awarded him its Caird Medal in 2005 for his contributions to naval history.

Bibliography

• The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (2006) ISBN 0-375-50165-7
• From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (2000) ISBN 0-300-08010-7
• Preparing for the Twenty-first Century (1993) ISBN 0-394-58443-0
• Grand Strategies in War and Peace (editor) (1991) ISBN 0-300-04944-7
• The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (1988) ISBN 1-57392-301-X
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) ISBN 0-394-54674-1
• The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1986) ISBN 1-57392-278-1 (2nd Ed. 2006) ISBN 1-59102-374-2
• Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945 (1983) ISBN 0-00-686165-2
• The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980 (1981)
• The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1860-1914 (1980)
• The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976, paperback reissue 2001, 2004)
• The Samoan Tangle: A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations 1878-1900 (1974)
• Conquest: The Pacific War 1943-45 (1973)
• Pacific Onslaught 1941-43 (1972)

References

• Eugene L. Rasor, British Naval History since 1815: A Guide to the Literature. New York: Garland, 1990, pp. 41-54.

NAME	Kennedy, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wallsend
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH