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Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA (born 1945), is a British historian specialising in international relations and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.

Kennedy was born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, and attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. Subsequently, he graduated with first class honours in history from Newcastle University and obtained his doctorate from St. Antony's College, Oxford, under the supervision of A. J. P. Taylor and John Andrew Gallagher. He was a member of the History Department 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 A...more Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA (born 1945), is a British historian specialising in international relations and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.

Kennedy was born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, and attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. Subsequently, he graduated with first class honours in history from Newcastle University and obtained his doctorate from St. Antony's College, Oxford, under the supervision of A. J. P. Taylor and John Andrew Gallagher. He was a member of the History Department 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 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2007-8, Kennedy was the Phillipe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.

He is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of British history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. 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. The book was incredibly well received by fellow historians, with A. J. P. Taylor labelling it "An encyclopaedia in itself" and Sir Michael Howard crediting it as "a deeply humane book in the very best sense of the word".

His most recent book is The Parliament of Man, in which he contemplates the past and future of the United Nations.

He 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 the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services.[3]

Awards and honours
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. The National Maritime Museum awarded him its Caird Medal in 2005 for his contributions to naval history.
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	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 3.97 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations 3.43 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Preparing for the Twenty-First Century 3.49 avg rating — 47 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Grand Strategies in War and Peace 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pacific Victory (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign Book No. 25) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Realities Behind Diplomacy 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:

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