Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University and is Director of Yale’s International Security Program. One of the world’s most respected and provocative historians, Professor Kennedy is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global economic, political and strategic issues.

Classically trained at Oxford as a diplomatic and military historian, he broke from that mould with his 1988 international bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. The book has never gone out of print, is available in 23 languages, and has sold close to two million copies. His other books include Preparing for the Twenty-first Century and The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations.

Professor Kennedy is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany. He is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.), and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic.