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Paul Kennedy
Kennedy is a Yale University historian and an expert in military strategy. His column examines how leaders can best manage world affairs, diplomacy and international relations. Readers will learn the historical significance of current global trends. Also available in Spanish.
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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