Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History
“The Coming of the Tripolar World”
Please join us at the New Haven Lawn Club on May 13, 2025 at 12PM for lunch and Professor Paul Kennedy's talk: "The Coming of the Tripolar World."
A three-course plated luncheon will be served. Free parking is available at the New Haven Lawn Club, which is handicap and ADA Accessible, and on the Yale Shuttle and CT Transit bus lines.
Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and former Director of International Security Studies (now known as the Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment). His writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues have been recognized around the world.
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 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, which provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988 and has been translated into over twenty languages.
Paul Kennedy’s monthly column on current global issues was for many years distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services. 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 2006 book The Parliament of Man contemplates the past and future of the UN. Kennedy’s subsequent book Engineers of Victory, which examined history through the eyes of problem-solvers during the Second World War, was published in 2013. His most recent book, Victory at Sea (Yale University Press: 2022), is an illustrated volume in which he analyzes relative sea power and global transformations during World War Two. He is currently working on a study of the major geopolitical shifts of the past thirty years and their impacts on the future.
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