Paul Kennedy,
Director of ISS, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor
of History, and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow
in Grand Strategy, coordinates the John M.
Olin Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military
History and Strategy and is responsible for the ISS
programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation.
He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries
on global political, economic, and strategic issues.
Born in June 1945 in the northern English town of Wallsend,
Northumberland, he obtained his BA at Newcastle University
and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is a
former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies,
Princeton University, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung,
Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees, and is a Fellow
of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical
Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected
a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003.
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. He is
the author or editor of nineteen books, including The
Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The War
Plans of the Great Powers, The Realities Behind
Diplomacy, and Preparing for the Twenty-First
Century. His best-known work is The Rise and
Fall of the Great Powers (Random House), which
provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988
and has been translated into over twenty languages.
In 1991, he edited a collection entitled Grand
Strategies in War and Peace. He helped draft the
Ford Foundation-sponsored report issued in 1995,
The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century,
which was prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of
the UN.
His latest book, The Parliament of Man:
The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations,
was published in Summer 2006 by Random House. He is
currently writing a study of the British imperialist
author Rudyard Kipling, as well as a collection of
essays on naval history.
