Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of history and director of international security studies at Yale University, and internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic and strategic issues.
Kennedy obtained his B.A. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Germany. Kennedy holds many honorary degrees and fellowships, including that of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He was made commander of the British Empire in 2000 for services to history and elected a fellow of the British Academy in June 2003.
Kennedy 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 Tribune Media Services.
Kennedy is the author and editor of 19 books, including "Strategy and Diplomacy" and "The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism." His best-known work is "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," which provoked an immense debate upon its appearance in 1988 and has since been translated into over 20 languages. He helped draft a report for an international commission on "The United Nations in its Second Half-Century," which was prepared for the 50th anniversary U.N. debate on how to improve the world organization. His most recent book, on the evolution of the U.N., entitled "The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations," was published in summer 2006.
Kennedy is currently writing a study of the British imperialist author, Rudyard Kipling, as well as a collection of essays ON naval history.
Paul Kennedy Samples
The Catholic Church and OUR Catholic Church
Being about the only professor at a liberal, tolerant, cosmopolitan Western university who is known to be a practicing Catholic -- baptized at the age of two weeks -- I have been asked frequently in recent times about what I think will happen to t...
Energy independence -- short-term gains but longer-term myth?
It is now common knowledge that the United States is on the brink of recapturing an independence that had been snatched away from it for the past 40 years, since the "oil shocks" of 1973.
The crisis of the tax state
The news reports about our current global economic situation are now depressingly familiar, though sometimes verging on the farcical.
American foreign policy, drifting slowly downstream
What if, the world community is entitled to ask, its number one power really doesn't have a coherent foreign policy?
Water, water, everywhere ...
Quick! A nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran? A Chinese-American fight for supremacy over the western Pacific? Putin's reassertion of Russian imperial power, by land grabs?
What's in a date -- or an anthem?
It was at the grandfather's farmstead in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, that my wife's extended family assembled, this year as before, to celebrate the American national day of the Fourth of July; it is a lovely coming-together event.
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