Information AboutPaul Kennedy |
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Paul Kennedy CBE (born 1945 ) is an authority on International Relations and Grand Strategy . He has published books on the history of the Royal Navy , Great Power struggles, the Pacific War and many others. Kennedy was born in North East England , at Wallsend . He went to St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle and attended the Newcastle , where he graduated with first class honors in history, and received his doctorate from Oxford . He was a Professor of History 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 at Princeton University , and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany . He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2001 . 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. 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''. His most recent work, ''Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations'', is slated for publication in the summer of 2006. |
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