On Tuesday, April 26, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin Department of History will host Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, for a book talk on his upcoming release Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. Join us at 12:15 p.m. in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, director of international security studies at Yale, and distinguished fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. He also coordinates 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, Kennedy earned his B.A. 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 was elected a fellow of the British Academy in June 2003.
Kennedy's 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 19 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 20 languages.
In 1991, Kennedy 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 50th anniversary of the UN. His 2006 book, The Parliament of Man, contemplates the past and future of the United Nations. His book Engineers of Victory views history through the eyes of problem-solvers during the Second World War, was published in 2013.
For more information on this event, contact Elizabeth Doughtie: elizabeth.doughtie@utexas.edu.