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
Hedging one's bets, or losing one's shirt?
Last week's headlines in The Wall Street Journal must surely have caused perplexity to our occasional, legendary visitor from the planet Mars, who still struggles to understand why we earthlings do the things that we do.
Means vs. ends: The eternal American defense dilemma
There are two widely different ways of considering President Obama's announcement, delivered at the Pentagon at the beginning of this year, about significant planned cuts in the American defense budget, and thus in the overall size of the nation's...
The return of 'Solomon Binding'
"Solomon Binding," some readers may recall, was the mythical figure conjured up by the witty English columnist Bernard Levin as he ridiculed the many contracts, agreements and "solemn and binding" pledges negotiated between the Harold Wilson gover...
The double dilemma facing weaker national economies
I recently returned from a visit to Portugal, that small, attractive state on the southwest extreme of the European landmass that looks out to the Atlantic and beyond, the birthplace of Prince Henry the Navigator, whose maritime ventures in the ea...
'The Spike' -- 80 years later
This is a story about the underbelly of American society today, but it begins by reference to an essay written a long time ago.
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