Paul Kennedy

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Paul Michael Kennedy CBE FBA (born June 17, 1945 in Wallsend , Northumberland ) is a British historian, political scientist and expert on military strategy, diplomacy and international relations . The focus of his work is the interplay between the economy and foreign policy at major powers .

Life

After earning a bachelor's degree in history from Newcastle University , Kennedy received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1970. He then worked at the Universities of East Anglia , the London School of Economics and Political Science and Bonn . Since 1983 he has been the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University , where he holds the position of Director of International Security Studies . He is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn.

After moving to the United States, he wrote for a number of well-known newspapers, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times . He is also active internationally as a guest author in many newspapers and magazines. He writes a monthly column for the Los Angeles Times on current global political events.

He has published 14 books so far. His most successful, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (dt .: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers ) has been translated into more than 20 languages and kindled in his appearance in 1988 a major public debate among scholars in the United States. In this book, he stated that imperial overstretch would lead a great power to decline.

His last book, Parlament der Menschheit, was published in German. The United Nations and the Road to World Government . He is a historical consultant for various TV documentaries such as the BBC for their production Sea Power .

Kennedy, who is very critical of the US campaign in Iraq , advised the Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in the election campaign in 2000 . Bill Clinton already consulted him as an advisor on international and security policy issues. Also in 2000 he was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and two years later a Fellow of the British Academy .

He was jointly responsible for two large papers that deal with contemporary, strategic issues: The Pivotal States: A New Framework for US Policy in the Developing World and From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. He also wrote a chapter in the anthology The Age of Terror, published by Yale University , which deals with the 9/11 attacks .

As early as 1987, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers , he warned of the expensive arms race caused by the Cold War, which could result in the disintegration of the two world powers of the time.

Kennedy lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife .

Memberships

Fonts

As an author

  • Pacific onslaught. 7th December 1941 - 7th February 1943 (The Pan Ballantine illustrated history of World War II.). Pan Ballantine, London 1972.
  • The rise and fall of British naval mastery (Classical History). Penguin Books, London 2001, ISBN 0-14-139047-6 (EA London 1976).
    • The rise and fall of British naval power. Translated by Hans and Hanne Meckel. Mittler, Herford / Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-8132-0013-2 .
  • The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism. 1860-1914 . 3rd edition Ashfield Press, London 1990, ISBN 0-948660-06-6 (EA London 1980).
  • Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945. Eight Studies. Allen & Unwin, London 1983, ISBN 0-04-902007-2 .
  • The rise and fall of the great powers . Economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000 . Random House, New York 1987, ISBN 0-394-54674-1 .
    • The rise and fall of the great powers. Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000. Translated by Catharina Jurisch. Historical advice Karin Schambach. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-10-039307-4 ; again: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-596-10937-X .
  • Preparing for the twenty-first century. Fontana, London 1994, ISBN 0-00-686298-5 .
  • The parliament of man. The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations . Random House, New York 2006 ISBN 0-375-50165-7 .
  • Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War (2013) ISBN 978-1-4000-6761-9
    • The Casablanca strategy. How the Allies won World War II; January 1943 to June 1944. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63985-2 .

As editor

  • With Emily Hill and Robert Chase: The Pivotal States. A New Framework for US Policy in the Developing World. WW Norton, New York 1999, ISBN 0-393-04675-3 .
  • With William Hitchcock: From War to Peace. Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, New Haven 2000, ISBN 0-300-08010-7
  • With Rob Manwaring: Why the Left loses. The Decline of the Center-Left in Comparative Perspective , Polly Press, Bristol 2018, ISBN 978-1-4473-3269-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Paul M. Kennedy. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy, Paul Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English historian, political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallsend , Northumberland