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Paul Kennedy

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Paul Kennedy:

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director

of International Security Studies at Yale is the author and editor of fifteen books,

including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. (June 2004)

From the Review

June 10, 2004: Mission Impossible?

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson

The Geographical Pivot of History an article by Halford J. Mackinder

Democratic Ideals and Reality by Halford J. Mackinder

November 7, 2002: The Modern Machiavelli

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer

No Virtue Like Necessity:

Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli by Jonathan Haslam

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt

August 12, 1999: In the Shadow of the Great War

The First World War by John Keegan

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson

September 19, 1996: Doomsterism

The Ends of the Earth:

A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan

March 4, 1993: The American Prospect

February 11, 1993: AN APPEAL

February 11, 1993: Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers

October 11, 1990: IS THE US DECLINING?

June 28, 1990: Fin-de-Siècle America

The Myth of America's Decline:

Leading the World Economy into the 1990s by Henry R. Nau

America's Economic Resurgence: A Bold New Strategy by Richard Rosecrance

Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America by John Chancellor

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

June 15, 1989: WHAT TO DO ABOUT DECLINE?

March 16, 1989: Can the US Remain Number One?

The Weary Titan:

Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905

by Aaron L. Friedberg

The Future of American Strategy by David C. Hendrickson

Thinking About America:

The United States in the 1990s:

edited by Annelise Anderson, edited by Dennis L. Bark

Preventing World War III:

A Realistic Grand Strategy by David M. Abshire

May 12, 1988: Not So Grand Strategy

Discriminate Deterrence:

Report of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy

co-chaired by Fred C. Iklé, by Albert Wohlstetter

March 14, 1985: The Reasons Why

The Origins of the First World War by James Joll

Bibliography*

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (1993)

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1991)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers:

Economic Change and Military Onflict from 1500 to 2000 (1989)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers:

Economic Change and Military Onflict from 1500 to 2000 (1988)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers:

Economic Change and Military Onflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987)

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1986)

Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945: Eight Studies (1984)

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1983)

Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945: Eight Studies (1983)

The Realities Behind Diplomacy:

Background Influences on British Xternal Policy, 1865-1980 (1981)

The Realities Behind Diplomacy:

Background Influences on British Xternal Policy, 1865-1980 (1981)

The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (1980)

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976)

The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976)

The Samoan Tangle:

A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations, 1878 1900 (1974)

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