Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy
Kennedy in 2012
Born	(1945-06-17) 17 June 1945 (age 79) Wallsend, Northumberland, England
Academic background
Alma mater	Newcastle University (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil)
Doctoral advisor	A. J. P. Taylor John Andrew Gallagher
Academic work
Institutions	University of East Anglia Yale University London School of Economics
Doctoral students	Richard Drayton Matthew Connelly

Paul Michael Kennedy CBE FBA (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. 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 Tribune Content Agency.^[1]

He has published on the history of British foreign policy and great power struggles, emphasizing the changing economic power base that undergirds military and naval strength, noting how declining economic power leads to reduced military and diplomatic weight.