Paul Kennedy (historian)

An authority on international relations and grand strategy, Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of British history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. 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.

Kennedy was born in the north of England, at Wallsend-on-Tyne, in 1945. He attended the University of Newcastle, where he graduated with first class honors in history, and received his doctorate from Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

His many books include: The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery, and Preparing for the Twenty-first Century. He is currently working on a history of the United Nations.