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Paul Michael Kennedy (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.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. Life Kennedy was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, and attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. Subsequently, he graduated with first-class honours in history from Newcastle University and obtained his doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford, under the supervision of A. J. P. Taylor and John Andrew Gallagher. He was a member of the History Department at the University of East Anglia between 1970 and 1983. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former visiting fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2007–2008, Kennedy was the Phillipe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. In 1983 he was named the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of British History at Yale. He is now also the Director of International Security Studies and along with John Lewis Gaddis and Charles Hill, teaches the Studies in Grand Strategy course there. In 2012, Professor Kennedy began teaching a course at Yale entitled "Military History of the West Since 1500", elaborating on his presentation of military history as inextricably intertwined with economic power and technological progress. His most well known book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, assesses the interaction between economics and strategy over the past five centuries. The book was very well received by fellow historians, with A. J. P. Taylor labelling it "an encyclopaedia in itself" and Sir Michael Howard crediting it as "a deeply humane book in the very best sense of the word". It has been translated into 23 languages. In his 2006 book The Parliament of Man, Kennedy contemplates the past and future of the United Nations. In 2010 he delivered the first Lucy Houston Lecture in Cambridge on the subject of "Innovation and Industrial Regeneration". Honours Kennedy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989 and the American Philosophical Society in 1991. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. The National Maritime Museum awarded him its Caird Medal in 2005 for his contributions to naval history. Kennedy was named the US Naval War College's Hattendorf Prize Laureate for 2014. Interpretations The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers In The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), Kennedy argues that economic strength and military power have been highly correlated in the rise and fall of major nations since 1500. He shows that expanding strategic commitments lead to increases in military expenditures that eventually overburden a country's economic base, and cause its long-term decline. His book reached a wide audience of policy makers when it suggested that the United States and the Soviet Union were presently experiencing the same historical dynamics that previously affected Spain, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, and Germany, and that the United States must come to grips with its own "imperial overstretch".However, the Cold War ended two years after Kennedy's book appeared, validating his thesis regarding the Soviet Union, but leaving the United States as the sole superpower and, apparently, at the peak of its economy. In the text, Kennedy predicted the rise of China, noting that it was undergoing economic development which could transform the country in decades and that it was "only a matter of time" before China became a great power.Nau (2001) contends that Kennedy's realist model of international politics underestimates the power of national, domestic identities or the possibility of the ending of the Cold War and the growing convergence of democracy and markets resulting from the democratic peace that followed. World War I In explaining why neutral Britain went to war with Germany, Kennedy (1980) recognised it was critical for war that Germany become economically more powerful than Britain, but he downplays the disputes over economic trade imperialism, the Baghdad Railway, confrontations in Eastern Europe, high-charged political rhetoric and domestic pressure-groups. Germany's reliance time and again on sheer power, while Britain increasingly appealed to moral sensibilities, played a role, especially in seeing the invasion of Belgium as a necessary military tactic or a profound moral crime. The German invasion of neutral Belgium was not important because the British decision had already been made and the British were more concerned with the fate of France (pp. 457–62). Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870, when Prussia and the German states smashed France, would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France. British policy-makers insisted that that would be a catastrophe for British security. Notable students Geoffrey Wawro (PhD 1992) Richard Drayton (PhD 1999) Fareed Zakaria (BA 1986) Frederick Kagan (PhD 1995)Bibliography Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II (2022) Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War (2013) ISBN 978-1-4000-6761-9 The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (2006) ISBN 0-375-50165-7 From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century co-editor (2000) ISBN 0-300-08010-7 Preparing for the Twenty-first Century (1993) ISBN 0-394-58443-0 Grand Strategies in War and Peace (editor) (1991) ISBN 0-300-04944-7 The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914 (2nd edn. 1988) ISBN 1-57392-301-X The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) ISBN 0-394-54674-1 The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1986) ISBN 1-57392-278-1 (2nd edn. 2006) ISBN 1-59102-374-2 The First World War and the International Power System (1984) Strategy and Diplomacy 1870–1945 (1983) ISBN 0-00-686165-2 The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865–1980 (1981) The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1860–1914 (1980) The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976, paperback reissue 2001, 2004) The Samoan Tangle: A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations 1878–1.... 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Paul Thomas Kennedy v. State Indiana
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Paul Thomas Kennedy v. State Indiana
Supreme Court Of IndianaThis is an appeal from the denial of post conviction relief. Defendant (Petitioner) was charged with murder in 1961. A determination of incompetency to stand trial delayed his tria...
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Man in the Crowd
Stanley CohenFor Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyl...
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The Lid is Lifted
Paul D KennedyWhen Iraq invaded Kuwait on the 2nd of August 1990 I was living in the tallest apartment block in the downtown area. I had a grandstand view of the tanks and troops as they came sw...
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Presidential Takedown
Paul Elias Alexander & Kent HeckenlivelyAn explosive behindthescenes look at Donald Trump's final months in office and how the COVID crisis response was a carefully crafted plan to ruin him.In January 2020, Donald Trump ...
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Paul Kennedy Photography
Paul KennedyIn this ebook you will be able to get inspiration on a wide range of photography from Landscape to Macro and also get a step by step on how to catch some of the photos I took.
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Deception
Rand PaulSenator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down sci...
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Becoming RBG
Debbie LevyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Supreme Court justice Ruth Bad...
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fa...
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Lillian Kennedy v. Paul E. Dixon
Supreme Court of NebraskaThis is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for $19,000 for personal injuries arising out of an automobile accident which occurred in Indiana. We reverse a...
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Die Macht der Schrift
Martin PuchnerDie Geschichte unserer Zivilisationen in den vergangenen vier Jahrtausenden ist eine Geschichte des geschriebenen Wortes. Die Verschriftlichung von Gründungsmythen, Erzählungen übe...
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A Most Un-Islamic Islamic State
Paul D KennedyThe selfstyled Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS, which claims to have established a new caliphate in the parts of Syria and Iraq it has conquered, is renowned for its bar...
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Diaz V. Paul J. Kennedy Law Firm
Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of AppealsPlaintiffs Carlos L. and Myrna Diaz, proceeding pro se, brought suit against defendants Paul J. Kennedy and Mary Y. C. Han (attorneys and members of defendant The Paul J. Kennedy L...
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Inauguration Day
Claude SalhaniOne step behind a chameleon Islamic terrorist known only as Omar, Laura Atwood, a beautiful CIA agent, teams up with journalist Chris Clayborne. Together they race across three con...
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The Cold War
Odd Arne WestadThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the...
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The Good Book
Andrew BlaunerThirtytwo prominent writers share the Bible passages most meaningful to them in this “Sunday School class you’ve been waiting for” (Garrison Keillor).The Good Book, with an introdu...
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The Wuhan Cover-Up
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The ...
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Dinners with Ruth
Nina TotenbergCelebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and lifeaffirming relationships, including her beautiful friendsh...
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Mafia Summit
Gil ReavillMafia Summit is the true story of how a smalltown lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to AmericaIn a small village in upstate New...
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The American Experiment
David M. RubensteinTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and hos...
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Making Terrorism History
Gabrielle Rifkind & Scilla ElworthyEver since 9/11 it's been clear we need a new approach to terrorism. In this timely and important book the authors show: The root causes of terrorism The links between trauma and f...
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The Good Assassin
Paul Vidich“The Good Assassin opens up Hemingway’s Cuba. Possessing Alan Furst’s attention for period detail and the deft character touches of John Le Carré, Vidich has quickly carved out a p...
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A Political History of the World
Jonathan HolslagA threethousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at w...
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Quinn
Em StrangA piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an awardwinning Scottish poet A New Statesman Most Anticipated Title for 2023 From an awardwinning Scottish poet,...
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I Dissent
Debbie LevyGet to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgin the first picture book about her lifeas she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!Supreme Court ...
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Never Surrender
John Kelly“WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again” (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill d...
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Amanda L. TylerRuth Bader Ginsburg’s final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a “more perfect Union.”In the fall of 20...
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Beating Diabetes
Paul D KennedyBeating Diabetes (How to defeat the horrors of type 2 diabetes)Type 2 diabetes is a sneaky disease. It begins painlessly, with few symptoms. But, it is deadly. Over time it will de...
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Leading Lines
Lucinda HoldforthHow to make speeches that seize the moment, advance your cause and lead the way.'Exhilarating, illuminating, and absolutely captivating, this book made me want to rush out and give...
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Jackie and Maria
Gill PaulFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwinedand they...
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JFK and the Reagan Revolution
Lawrence Kudlow & Brian DomitrovicThe fascinating, suppressed history of how JFK pioneered supplyside economics. John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates acrosstheboard, bec...
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Double Cross
Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana, Bettina Giancana & Tim NewarkOne of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicl...
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul KennedyAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of...
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Marilyn Monroe
Charles CasilloBased on new interviews and research, this groundbreaking biography explores the secret selves behind Marilyn Monroe’s public facades. Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivat...
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Paul Simon
Robert HilburnAcclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participationbut without his editorial...
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On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or wouldbe leader.”The Wall Street JournalA master clas...
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Pies and Prejudice
Stuart MaconieA Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Bla...