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Paul Kennedy

1945 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Kennedy is the 304th most popular historian (up from 337th in 2019), the 2,827th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,866th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Paul Kennedy ranks 304 out of 561. Before him are Vardan Areveltsi, Ubbo Emmius, Marc Ferro, Tom Segev, Gustave Lanson, and Efraim Zuroff. After him are Gerda Lerner, Filippo Baldinucci, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Émile Mâle, Yehuda Bauer, and Walter Laqueur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Paul Kennedy ranks 306. Before him are Wyomia Tyus, Bob Balaban, Tom Segev, Pietro Grasso, Edoardo Reja, and Sandro de América. After him are Andrew Birkin, Katja Ebstein, Kim Larsen, Modestas Paulauskas, Bruno Nuytten, and Ken Walsh.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Kennedy ranks 2,828 out of 8,785. Before him are James Glaisher (1809), George Cruikshank (1792), Caroline Goodall (1959), William Speirs Bruce (1867), Cyril Jackson (1903), and Robert Holdstock (1948). After him are William Ernest Henley (1849), Harry Andrews (1911), John Osborne (1929), William Playfair (1759), Leo Genn (1905), and Andrew Birkin (1945).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Paul Kennedy ranks 31. Before him are John Foxe (1516), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), George Buchanan (1506), Quentin Skinner (1940), Agnes Arber (1879), and Gerald of Wales (1146). After him are Christopher Hill (1912), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), and John Keegan (1934).

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